<a href="http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/UpdateIRDriver">http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/UpdateIRDriver</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Scott D. Davilla <<a href="mailto:davilla@4pi.com">davilla@4pi.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">>Do a little research: apple remotes send some sort of special ID code<br>
>along with every message, so its super unlikely that some standard<br>
>pack of codes would work. Your best bet would be obtaining a remote<br>
>that can learn codes, find about 15 friends with apple remotes and<br>
>teach each button on your learning remote one of the codes from the<br>
>various remotes, then set up lirc to use those codes. I think the high<br>
>end harmony remotes work with RF systems so you could still use your<br>
>bose system (but not its remote unless it has learning capabilities).<br>
<br>
</div>There's someone on the atv-bootloader mailing list that is doing this<br>
a learning remote. You don't need 15 friends, it can be done with a<br>
single Apple IR remote<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
>Why on earth apple crippled their IR hardware as such is a mystery.<br>
>Especially since you don't have to pair your remote with your<br>
>computer/aTV (that would make some sense so your neighbor holding down<br>
>the play button on his remote won't put your laptop to sleep).<br>
<br>
</div>Apple is not responsible for making sure that other IR remotes work<br>
with their IR controller. Why should they? That's not it's design<br>
function. They designed their IR controller to preprocess IR signals<br>
and only pass valid HID events to the OS. It's very robust and works<br>
every time with their IR remote and off loads the grunt work to the<br>
IR controller. If you want raw IR signal processing, well that's a<br>
different product.<br>
<br>
Why they did this is no mystery. It's a real pain in the rear to<br>
design a robust IR controller that handles every existing and future<br>
IR remote. Many protocols, many frequencies to handle, software<br>
wizards that need to work, etc. Doing this would add to the design<br>
cost and ultimately result in a higher product cost.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John