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Using a PC as a Remote Control?

Posted by Cliff on from the controlling-it-all-from-your-laptop dept.

Dave2 Wickham asks: "I am interested in using one of my PCs as a remote control. The most likely candidate for this would be my laptop - which runs Windows XP (flame on, but I don't want to make any major changes in my last year of school). It has a standard IR port built in - nothing fancy. If there is, for some reason, no option for this, then is there any way for me to use my Live! Drive with LIRC on my Linux machine?" For those interested, Ask Slashdot handled the converse of this issue, in an article on controlling PCs with IR remotes.

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  1. flame on by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Insightful

    flame on, but I don't want to make any major changes in my last year of school)

    hey, it's your freedom.

    You wanna suck Bill's dick, that's your business

    IRDA != IR, simple as that

    buy a universal remote

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  2. Re:IRDA vs IR by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, it probably is IRDA - but doesn't LIRC support that? It seems to imply that...

  3. Re:Why? by mnmn · · Score: 3, Insightful


    You dont ask that question in geek circles. Why is always an afterthought, when youve made your creation and need to make money off it. Same applies to good scientists.

    People have beowulfed PDAs, emulated IA-64 on 386s and created VPNs in VPNs with no WHY in sight.

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