12 Jan
2024
12 Jan
'24
11:11 a.m.
From a UX perspective, I discovered why it's useful to have different
protocols and devices. I got several LED lights, each of which came with
one of those 16-button generic remotes. They ALL responded to the same
button press, which makes it harder to make each light be a different color
using the remote. It's great they all turn on and off at the same time,
though.
The specific set of remote control functions you need depends on which
electronics components you have, and how you use them. It's a lot easier
for device manufacturers to just give you a plastic slab with some buttons
linked to specific actions, than to figure out how their device might
interface with the other dozen RC controlled items in your vicinity.
I once tried to use a generic IRRemote library (the one that j0ule linked)
to control a project using IR - but it turned out the code just didn't fit
onto an ATTiny, which meant having to implement IR controls from scratch
with just the 5-6 signals that we needed to capture.
Have you folks tried out some of the phone-based UI's for setting up remote
controls for your devices?
Anca.
On Jan 9, 2024, at 4:15 PM, Peter Mui via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
This email just came in as general inquiry on repair.org:
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Hello,
I'm a writer working on a story for the Washington Post and am getting in
touch to see if The Repair Association might have someone who would be able
to speak to the story I'm working on.
The story is this: We're looking into how we wound up with so many remotes
in our homes. The story is a bit on the history and the "why" of why our
entertainment centers of the home have come to have a pile of remotes and
why they don't all work together, how it came to be this way. I'm looking
for experts who work on TVs and entertainment products that have an
understanding of why we're here and why there haven't been solutions that
keep the consumer in mind.
Thanks for any assistance you're able to provide.
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Does anyone here know how we arrived this cambrian explosion of IR remote
codes?
-Peter
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