From: Andrew Stewart <boss@...>
Date: 2008-02-16T21:12:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Programmatic VCR Control


On 15 Feb 2008, at 20:54, yermej wrote:
> If the VCR can be programmed solely via remote, you could use a
> software driven IR emitter to send the right signals to the VCR.
> Something like this: http://www.usbuirt.com/ If you really want to do
> this on the cheap and your time isn't worth anything (if it is, you
> should probably just get a TiVo), you could buy a much more bare bones
> IR emitter (and probably a receiver so your software can learn the
> right codes) and do all the code yourself.

Thanks for the suggestions and the link to that site.

It's not that my time isn't worth anything; instead that it would be  
more satisfying to do it myself than simply buy somebody else's  
solution.  On the other hand it would be more satisfying still to go  
windsurfing and learn to duck gybe so maybe I'll just get the TiVo  
after all :)

Regards,
Andy Stewart

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