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The next part of my TV control project was to cover the TV’s IR sensor. I have an IR transmitter stuck to it, but the TV gets confused by signals from other remotes. I needed some sort of nodule to cover it, which also had a cavity in it to hold the transmitter. Additionally, itContinue reading “FIMO slugs”

I’d been looking for a way for my media PC to control the power of the other devices in that system (sub, amp, tv). I’d thought about X.10, but I felt that was expensive overkill. After some investigation on maplin’s website, I found these. These are RF remote controlled 4bars. Quite nifty, although I’m notContinue reading “Mains Power Fun!”

Here we go! First of all, my lirc configuration for the toshiba TV power button, manually adjusted to the proper NEC timings:

I’ve been experimenting with the IR blasting TV control option. With IR blasting you don’t (normally) get any status back from the TV, so you need what is called a "discrete code" – an IR signal that either turns the TV on, or turns the TV off. An on/off toggle signal (which is what the power buttonContinue reading “The TV saga continues!”

In which I investigate tv control and accidentally stumble over the HDCP protocol. I’ve been investigating controlling my tv from my media box recently. There are three four main possibilites: IR blaster The service port on the TV DDC/CI CEC 1 – will work, but I’d like a finer degree of control2 – I have theContinue reading “HDCP and the Toshiba 32wlt68 LCD TV”

Interesting, see this link on the reg Ofcom are asking people if the BBC should be allowed to apply their proposed  programme listing DRM. Whether responding will do any good, I don’t know, but it can’t do any harm… Note that as they’re not proposing DRMing the *content*, just the programme guide (by restricting knowledgeContinue reading “Ofcom consultation about BBC DRM”

Wheee, at about 12am last night I decided that I really just had to port tigervnc to the latest 1.7.x xserver. It hadn’t been done previously because there were some fairly massive cleanups in the keyboard code from 1.6.x->1.7.x which changed a lot of things. A couple of hours later, and I had a workingContinue reading “Today’s good deed”

On the way to Wrynose Pass Originally uploaded by adq_uk Photos from our trip to the Lake District . I can see why people fall in love with the place: the colours, man, the colours!

Lamplight in the Evening Originally uploaded by adq_uk

Lions Head IR Originally uploaded by adq_uk