As an avid user of several Pocket PCs and Prontos I have to say I REALLY would love to see the merge of the new total remote hardware with a pronto emulator (TV remote controller X.x). Is this something that could happen? Am I the only person that thinks this product would be awesome?

I understand the use of .ccf files would require some legal work on Total Remote's end or the way to send signals to the stereo jack may require some license work from pdawin, but this would be the ultimate!!!

I love my pronto remotes for the way they work, but the physical size is a little awkward. Price for a "remote" is now way too much with emulation options. I love my iPaq’s but I REALLY need to use the .ccf files – I spent a lot of time getting these files working just as I want, and there are some awesome macros that are not easy to try and re-do. Discrete codes are in about every macro. I don’t want to have to re-do that stuff again. Using my i-Paq as a remote allows me the ability to do just about anything else, and if I could use my CF slot again I could slide in my 800.11b card again and surf the web between clicks of the remote… I have a tablet PC I currently use for some of this, like surfing the web, but the lack of consumer IR on this only lets me control my Home Theater PC via Girder over the LAN. I cannot change the surround mode on my receiver or anything. Heck maybe the Total remote would work in the headphone jack of my tablet PC – it is on the side – can the software go landscape mode about 5 times the size and be ported to Windows???

Please - lets merge this software and hardware. I have tried the demo of Total remote and it does work, but I am not going to re-do all my programming I put together (and downloaded from here) for my Pronto.

your not the only one eather. I just contacted PDAWin today about that very same matter. I hope they can do something about making their software compadible with Total Remotes hardware. I'll keep you posted on what they tell me.

Not going to happen.

The 'one man shop' that is Griffin Technology is afraid that Philips will sue them for making 'Pronto CCF' compatible hardware and software. So they have no intention of releasing the software spec needed to interface PDAWin to their IR blaster.

want something really cool?

Check out netremote.org. It's only a matter of time before they figure out how to use an IR blaster *and* an 802.11b wireless card to a HTPC at the same time.

This message was edited by westmetro on 01/27/03 15:23.

I have been using this on my tablet PC. I will say this can all be done, but at this point, things are kind of messy. Getting things to interface takes some time and getting serial to IR works, but again takes some time.

I'm not sure I understand what you've said.

Do you mean that the time required to send a WiFi message to a PC and then have it send IR via a serial IR device takes too much time?

"Using my i-Paq as a remote allows me the ability to do just about anything else, and if I could use my CF slot again I could slide in my 800.11b card again and surf the web between clicks of the remote…"

I just got a scandisk CF Card to PC Card slot adapter $19.95 off www.handango.com. My thoughts were to get a dual slot iPaq PC Card Sleeve and use a 802.11a nic in 1 slot and the PDA-ir CF card in the other via the converter. Anyone tried this or failed trying?

Additionally - if you have a ipaq Cf card wi fi NIC, there are dual slot CF Card sleeves around.

The PC Card to CF adapter will not work with PDA-ir. Only one of the pins used by PDA-ir maps through from the PC Card slot.

BTW, you paid more than twice as much for your PC Card-to-CF adapter as I did for the same one. I got one several months ago for $9.95 and it wasn't on sale. I bought one to see whether I could modify it so that all the pins used by PDA-ir did map through but decided it was impractical.

I do not know about the dual CF sleeve. I suggest you e-mail PDAwin and ask if they are able to distinguish the two CF slots.

Damn!

Cant anything be easy :-)

Good news is theres a good return policy on the CF Adapter I got, and its yet to be opend. What a bummer!

Guess now I gotta hope the dual CF Sleeve works! So much for the 802.11"a" - havent seen cf card nic on that standard yet.

Hrmmmmm ..... perhaps that HTC via the LAN idea isnt so bad after all. Stupid weak iPaq IR ......

This is the E-Mail I got back from PDAwin:

Dear David,

thank you for your email. We will try to add support for this extender in next version.

Best regards,
PDAwin support team.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Emery
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:23 PM
Subject: TV remote controller suggestion


I was just wondering if you had any plans of supporting this device that Griffin Technology invented. Here is the link to the product in question. [Link: griffintechnology.com] . I would be very interested in your product if you supported this device. I think it is slick and the fact that it doesn’t take up my CF slot is even better.



Thanks for your time and consideration.

No the time between Wi-Fi to IR does not take too much time, but getting this stuff setup and working takes time and effort. You don't just go to Comp USA and get a black box to plug in to get everything working.

I think things would be much easier if the software supported the Ocelot. That can handle all of the IR and do X-10 for lights, etc. What else is needed?