On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 07:00:52AM -0500, Sumit Birla wrote:
> I have a set top box from allwell
> (http://www.gctglobal.com/Products/Terminal_Box/terminal_box.html) that has
> an infrared port built in. The goal is to use a palm pilot as a remote to
> control this box. How do I go about doing this? My first problem is to
> figure out if the infrared port is detected by linux (currently nothing in
> the bootup sequence indicates that it did).
>
> I understand that the kernel has to understand the IrOBEX protocol in order
> to communicate with the palm. Are there other options that need to be
> enabled as well? Any tips/pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hmmm... are you specifically wanting *Pilots* to be able to control it,
or IR remotes in general? If the latter, you probably want to grab
that remote control package for the Pilot; name eludes, but it's like
$30, and test with that.
Cheers,
-- jra
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