On 10/09/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Macdonald</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@caliban.org">ian@caliban.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've only tried to use it to learn my set-top box's remote control. It<br>worked, but it produced a file that wasn't lirc-compatible. I needed an<br>lirc-compatible file, so that I could use it to send the signals to my<br>
IR blaster.</blockquote><div><br>There is talk on the OrigenAE forums about an IR sending addon module for the these IR/VFD units. Apparently they are waiting to solve some problems with the Windows MCE IR API before they release the module (their main market is MCE), something about Micro$oft not releasing the details to the general public. So us Linux users will have to wait :-(
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> For those interested the IR receiver will also allow the PC to be<br>> turned on/off by the remote, it has an on board relay that you can run
<br>> your case power switch through.<br><br>Do you have this working? I couldn't quite figure out how to do it, as<br>the Linux CLI doesn't seem to have a way of enabling/disabling this<br>feature.<br></blockquote></div>
<br><br>No, not yet. I have a dedicated FE/BE and it is nearly never off, so like you I haven't spent much/any real time to get it going. Maybe when I get the nvram auto shutdown/resume going it will be worth doing.<br><br>
The linux client can set the power on / power off commands I think, but the doco is much clearer on how to do it with the windows client.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Roo<br>