To quote Joni Mitchell,
That was a dream some of us once had
On March 21, 2008 at 17:23, KrisRoberts said...
There must be a way to get the ceiling fan integrated
with the pronto, right?
No, there mustn't not.
A lot of people have RF controlled ceiling fans and home
automation systems, someone must have figured out a way
to get it to work that doesnt require an engineering degree.
Or does everyone just accept that it cant be done and
move on?
The basic problem is buying any RF controlled device and expecting an RF solution from IR devices.
I found this silly video about how to get it to work with
an eHarmony remote. Theirs just does RF from the remote
with no hassle?!?
[Link: expertvillage.com]Peter's right, but heck, there's an experiment you can do, and somebody please tell me if this works these days.
Get a powermid. I think the current model is from RCA. It's a two part device. One part receives IR and turns it into RF. The other part receives the RF and turns it back into IR.
Use it backwards. Set up the second part to teach its IR output to a Pronto, and push a button on the RF remote. If you get IR out of it, the RF frequencies probably match. Anyway, if you get IR out of it, learn that IR. There's no guarantee that the form of the signal in RF will even be learnable in IR.
If you've learned a code, turn on RF in the properties of the page that you've put that code into, and see if it controls the fan.
As Peter says, IF. And the "if" has to do with the RF frequencies.
