Hi all,

I'm hoping to find someone who's been over this ground before.

I want to get what is apparently one of the best FM tuners to come along in years -
the Sony XDR-F1HD. It is said to do an excellent job with regular FM, but also does
HD Radio, and I do have an HD Radio signal I'm interested in.

Now, I want more than to plug this into my stereo. I record from radio every week
with the Windows app 'Radiator' and a USB-controllable FM radio. I'd like to extend
that to HD Radio by being able to control the Sony from a computer. I'd also like to
break out of Windows and run an open source application to send the IR commands.
I would need hardware to send IR codes, Solaris or Linux software to talk to the
hardware, and a way to find or capture the correct IR codes from the Sony remote.
I have a Harmony 680 which I know can learn the codes, if that helps. I've seen
some stuff that seems expensive and like overkill for using a remote to control the
computer; I mostly want the computer to emit IR, though detecting the codes may
be necessary.

Has anyone done research that would apply here?

Thanks,
Rob T

we are just waiting for an 'application' that will allow Harmony Remote users to use their Harmonies to take over the World, obviously the remote has the in-built power to perform this task it's just a matter of a simple program.
sorry for the sarcasm.