Ir

[zmerlinz]

Hi

my friend has an IR port on his laptop, and he wants to know if he can control his television or VCR via his IR port on his laptop, he can find out the frequency for his television (i think) but how would he go about interfacing between the two ??

any ideas anyone ??

[parksie]

Perhaps monitoring everything that comes into the port and pointing the remote at it? I don't think it'll work too well because the IR port is serial :-s

[zmerlinz]

do you or anyone know of any programs that are capable of doing such a thing ?

[tumblingdown]

write one.


td.

[zmerlinz]

i have been actually considering that, i found a great deal of information at www.irda.org but would i be able to write the whole program in VB ?? i have a feeling that i will need some c or even asm, plus i need to get myself an ir port for my computer to test it out.

[tumblingdown]

if you want a hand, give me a shout.


td.

[zmerlinz]

cheers mate, i will keep you in mind :)