On 25/02/2005, at 4:12 PM, Martin Ravell wrote:
<x-tad-bigger>Hi nick,</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Which of the transmitter circuits did you go for?</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>The port I have available to use is on the motherboard so I’m leaning towards the simple amplified design to be safe. I figure I could pull 5 volts off a spare connector on the PC’s powersupply to run it.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Did you also build up a receiver from the lirc site to do your capture?</x-tad-bigger>
I built the simple transmitter circuit (the first one on the lirc website). It pulls power from the serial port. The range isn't very good on mine though, I have to tape the LED directly onto the front of the cable box.
I bought a reciever from here (http://www.elx.com.au/item/IR520S). It works with the lirc_sir module and not with the lirc_serial module. It works pretty well, except that the range on it isn't very good. I pretty much have to point the remote directly at it for it to receive. I have a universal remote control, one of those fancy ones with a touch screen LCD.
Nick
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