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Best PDA for TotalRemote
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Post 16 made on Wednesday September 29, 2004 at 15:06
Don Stratton
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On 09/27/04 20:43 ET, msthilaire said...
My wife has an X3 that she barely uses, and I
have an X5 that is gathering dust. I'd love to
be able to use it as a universal remote for the
new media room in my new house.

Does the X5 have a good range with the IRDA port?

The X5 was the first real "disaster" we even encountered during the development of Total Remote. The audio hardware cannot support our transmitter module, and the IrDA range is pathetic (maybe 5-10 feet, with the wind at your back, on a good day, if you wipe the IR window of your TV first, and only if you believe in god). We had to completely write off the X5; to be absolutely specific we do not support PPCs that do not work well for Total Remote, so we do not support the use of an Axim X5 for Total Remote.

Get a later-model Dell. Ever since the X5 they have worked VERY closely with us to insure that Total Remote would work well, and they clearly understood that it would require them to take a different hardware approach. Total Remote is included on the companion CD included with every Axim forward of the X5, which means the X3, X30 and quite possibly any unreleased PPC they may be working on that I cannot discuss. ;)


--Don
Post 17 made on Wednesday September 29, 2004 at 22:30
fender4645
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Doh!!! I found it on the Companion CD. I guess I was just used to Dell taking up half my desktop computer with useless utilities and I thought they'd do the same with the PDA.

So TR seems very cool. Although there's one thing I've noticed: while the range seems to be good, the IR seems to have to be pointed directly at the device in order to work. And I'm not talking about pointed it the opposite way...I'm talking a few degrees off and it doesn't work. Is this normal? Even my regular remotes can usually handle a 45 degree radius around the device and still work. Is this expected of the x30? Thanks!
Post 18 made on Friday October 1, 2004 at 13:40
Don Stratton
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On 09/30/04 02:30 ET, fender4645 said...
Doh!!! I found it on the Companion CD. I guess
I was just used to Dell taking up half my desktop
computer with useless utilities and I thought
they'd do the same with the PDA.

That is why in the future we will be gunning for installation to ROM. Before we do THAT, I absolutely need to revise a few features and options to insure that the dramatically broader market will be able to enjoy it, and not have to be a mental possessed obsessed home theater nut like most of the rest of us. This ties in with my whole "PPC remote control is NOT for the masses" tirade, which I would be happy to expound upon another time.

So TR seems very cool. Although there's one thing
I've noticed: while the range seems to be good,
the IR seems to have to be pointed directly at
the device in order to work. And I'm not talking
about pointed it the opposite way...I'm talking
a few degrees off and it doesn't work. Is this
normal? Even my regular remotes can usually handle
a 45 degree radius around the device and still
work. Is this expected of the x30? Thanks!

That seems a LITTLE odd, but not VERY odd. I do not usually think about a limitation of beam angle, so either my test gear is more sensitive that your gear or I happen to be pointing derectly at my target device every time I test (which is damn likely). I guess I will try to quantify the relative beam angle of the Axim X3 and/or X30.


--Don
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