Hi Roy.

06-Nov-03 20:15:45, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jasen Betts


 RJT> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Matt Mc_Carthy:

 MM>> dull-side-to-the-eraser end of a pencil (note that the foil has a
 MM>> shiny side and a dull side - the shiny side is pure aluminum, the
 MM>> Ain't that the truth!  And I've never seen any brand of
 MM>> "universal" that covers ALL the functions of the
original.   :-(

 JB>> what's needed is some software to cook up codes that can be
 JB>> recorded into a learning remote...

 RJT> That's an interesting thought.  I remember an article in Byte
 RJT> magazine some years back,  when Steve Ciarcia was still writing
 RJT> for them,  and it featured a "learning remote".  I don't recall
 RJT> if it learned its stuff from the original remote or not,  though

The learning remotes I've seen all did, they had a low gain IR receiver
built in for that purpose, but if a computer was capable of emulating a
remote then the learning remote could learn from the emulation.

ISTR downloading some stuff on remote control codes from your BBS.

 -=> Bye <=-

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