Using a PC as a Remote Control?

Posted by Cliff on Friday April 25, 2003 @09:45AM 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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wired/wireless control? by slacktop · 2003-04-25 11:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Granted, I am a noob with Linux, but what about using the XP laptop as a remote via a wired/wireless connection and PC Anywhere(w/WINE), or VNC? That's what I've been doing.... I run 2k/Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop and use WiFi to contol my XP desktop across the room via PC Anywhere. BTW--Deep Space 9 looks good on a 21" Viewsonic CRT.