Have you guys seen IRremote

[Guest v_patel1]

I know we dont like nokias round here but IRremote for 7650 is amazing, any chance we could do this one spv?

[Guest Lojt]

Its been discussed alot, and it seems that the hardware doesn't support the IR ranges that remotes use (or someting like that...)

[Guest jenneth]

Yes, that's what I read too. So while it would be very very cool and oh so convenient to use the SPV as remote control as well, you'd probably have to press yourself against the TV in order for the TV's IR receiver to register the faint signals emanating weakly from your SPV. May as well just change the channel on the TV itself!

[Guest ajb3000]

I don't reckon it would be quite as bad as some people think. I managed to successfully transmit a file between 2 SPVs at a distance of 1 metre, and I heard that the protocol used is sending IR to a TV works differently to IrDA so you would get a greater distance between the devices. Also I'm assuming the 7650 and SPV have similar IR ports, what distance does the 7650 transmit to a TV over?

[Guest v_patel1]

7650 is a couple of meters

[Guest spraycleaner]

okey but then again does anyone HAVE the prorgram for the SPV because I have seen it once on the bornsloppy.co.uk site, but It is now gone..

[Guest v_patel1]

has anyone got this program then if it was on coolsmartphone?

[Guest v_patel1]

has any seen it, and does anyone think it will be possible to make one?

[Guest davidhorn]

I suspect that the SPV has similar IR technology to that of the Pocket PC, which is a mixed bag of tricks. The earlier Pocket PCs had weak IR ports... I'm not able to change the channel on my TV even by pushing the IR ports together. However, the newer iPAQs have special IR ports and software that allow them to function as decent remote controls.

[Guest blueflash]

The Gameboy had a homebrew IR remote rom, do a search I doubt it will work on emu but if Gameboy can I'm sure SPV can

waiting to be able to upgrade or cancel me sub ;)

[Guest Gorskar]

The gameboy doesnt have an IR port as far as I'm aware, so the ROM would have to be distributed in a card with an IR LED to operate the remote control. THis LED would be designed to be of sufficient strength to reach the other side of a room.

Needless to say there is no way on earth that ROM would work on the SPV.

We are still not sure how far the IR signal would carry from the SPV, given that it is only designed to reach a short distance to another device. Also I am told that to make such a program would not be an easy proposition, as the IR drivers on the SPV only support IRDA, not CIR (for remote controls). So someone would have to build this up with no help from the standard microsft APIs (I could be explaining this poorly, I am not a programmer). A large amount of work (maybe even impossible?) to go for, given that it might not even work due to the hardware contraints.

[Guest gregbarton]

The gameboy doesnt have an IR port as far as I'm aware

im not sure but i think the gameboy pocket did have a ir port !!!

[Guest vijay555]

he might be right... but no way the rom would work.

i've only just got hold of an spv and can finally start tinkering, but just from my lay point of view, i had a brainwave (of sorts) the other day.

Is it not possible to open the IR port up for file input/output as we normally do with serial comms, and read directly from it? Then use some hard coded parsing to read the ir codes being received, or just splurge some ASCII out to the "file" to transmit?

Or just perhaps ask the smartexplorer people nicely how they did it?

[monolithix, should i move this to Hardware or somewhere else perhaps?]

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