On February 18, 2005 3:48 pm, Kin C Wong wrote: > >An arm9 is definitely overkill for this. Check out http://www.lirc.org/ > >especially the home-brew part of the Supported Hardware section. It's > > quite possible to use an old mouse for the serial interface so you just > > need to wire up an IR detector and IC. Should be less than $1 in parts. > > > >~Scott > > Nice link Scott, I was not aware of an irc specifically for linux. This > will come in handy. I can't use an old mouse because at some point, we > will want to go to production. However, certainly something to tinker > with. > > I notice that it references serial and parallel ports.. Unfortunately, most > of the new laptops are coming out with neither port and are replacing it > with a usb port. In the new ir receiver / decoder, usb would be the way to > go. > > I agree, definitely overkill (but I really want a reason for getting one > ... or two ... or a dozen <grin>).
The hardware designs/links on that website aren't really specific to linux, they just convert IR signals into readable serial codes. The software portion is a library/daemon for linux (but should be portable) that can interpret those codes into into an actual function because it contains a database of common remote control models and their button codes (and you can add your own). Also, since you need USB, did you see the link on the side to the usb-ir-boy project http://usbirboy.sourceforge.net/ It contains the schematics and a BOM to build the hardware (quite cheap) and a linux kernel module that works with lircd and apparently it works with the xbox. I understand if you still want to get a real sbc though, just order a dozen+1 and send one my way ;) ~Scott _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
