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[dan]

Jason, these would work. . . IF you added a diode and resitor, and a mono-
plug.  Or, you could just build the simple xmitter on the lirc site.  See this 
thread (From yesterday no less) regarding building the simple circuit.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/Re%
3AIR_Transmitter_Help_P108912/

-dan

>Jason G (sredni.vashtar at comcast.net) wrote: 
>
>Hello, 

I'm looking into IR emitters so that I can control my digital cable box (it 
doesn't seem to have a serial port on the back at all). I've been looking at 
some emitters that are available on-line 
(http://www.hometech.com/infrared/emitters.html). These seem to be cheap, 
small, and involve no construction on my part. I could probably build one 
using the instructions on the lirc.org site, but I doubt that I'd get 
something as small as these and it certainly wouldn't look as polished. 

I was wondering if anyone had any experience getting these things to work 
under linux? They've got 1/8" (3.5mm) mono connectors, which suggests that 
they'd be pretty easy to connect via serial. The various emitters seem to want 
to talk to a control box of some sort, which I don't want to spend the 
benjamins on. If anyone has any suggestions/experience hooking these up under 
linux, I'd appreciate any tips you can provide. 

Thanks, 
Jason