On September 14, 2010 at 10:53, bouellon said...
If you don't want to go the RF route, (IMO the best way to go) the best IR remote I have found over the years, is the Xantech URC-2. Very powerful. Don't have to point ''too much''. All hard buttons. Completely customizable. PC Programmable. Back lit. Macros. Old school remote, but reliable. Read the review on RC. You can get a cheap one on ebay, with a little patience.
I need to make my own remote as I would not be using buttons and would take input from some other source. I just wanted to duplicate the same kind of transmitter that "Xantech URC-2" may be using. I think we are now able to do this by sending much larger current than we had done earlier. Earlier we were sending about 150 mA and now it is close to 1.2 A. As I said I am making two different remotes. One with RF and other without. Cost with RF is higher.
