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Is there any really reliable and inexpensive (say <$30 per IR Blaster)<br>
technology that allows multiple blasters on a single modern PC? (No<br>
serial, no PCI)</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is there enough interest in such a thing to spend time developing a product, even as a homebrew project, for this? It's really not that hard to build this sort of thing, though interfacing with LIRC is a PITA for me as I just don't understand their code all that well. I knocked out a USB based IR receiver in a weekend with a microcontroller, sending isn't that much more work. There are also the FTDI chips, those have an LIRC driver that uses the bit-bang mode to send and receive IR signals. I didn't have much luck getting it to work right though. Either option would allow for multiple blasters and a receiver without much work and be in that price range. There wasn't much interest in the LIRC list when I asked for someone to collaborate on the LIRC side. I just don't have time right now to learn another codebase. </div>
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