<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 19, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" class="">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 18, 2017 3:52 PM, "Peter Bennett" <<a href="mailto:cats22@comcast.net" class="">cats22@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="elided-text">On 03/18/2017 03:12 PM, Ian Evans wrote:<br class="">
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Thanks for indulging my question for a minute. I have to frequently provide phone support to an older relative who sometimes gets confused and anxious when dealing with their cable STB. I suddenly thought it'd be great if I could control a Pi with an IR transmitter and be able to send discrete power codes, etc. So I could say over the phone "I'm putting channel 61 on for you."<br class="">
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What sort of Linux library sends IR signals? I know LIRC receives, but what's the opposite?<br class="">
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Some nights when I get the calls I would just love to go to a web page and pgm in channel 61@7pm, channel 8 @8pm.<br class="">
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I think you mean "control an IR transmitter with a Pi". I used an Iguana IR for that before, and it works well (<a href="http://www.iguanaworks.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.iguanaworks.net</a>) </blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The Iguana stuff looks good. Because of the way their room is configured I'd be best off having a transmitter in front of each device. Just thinking out loud here. </div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>The IguanaWorks IR emitter is a tiny LED on the end of thin cable (connected by 3.5mm ‘phono’ plug). You use double-side tape to position it in front of the controlled device’s IR receiver. See:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://www.iguanaworks.net/products/usb-accessories/ir-emitters/" class="">http://www.iguanaworks.net/products/usb-accessories/ir-emitters/</a></div><br class=""><div class="">I haven’t actually used the emitter yet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Craig</div></body></html>