Kodewerx

Remote controls really piss me off lately. I hate these junk ass remotes that barely work even when you're pointing right at the device. Anyway, I was thinking about something. We used to have one of those huge satellite dishes. The kind where the reciever actually moved the dish to tune to particular channels, etc (something like that). Anyway, the interesting thing to me is the reciever/tuner was in the living room, but the remote worked from fucking ANYWHERE in the house. What I wanna know is what kind of remote was that, and are there others like it? Can you get a universal remote that works off something other than infrared, line-of-sight garbage? Or would it have to be a special reciever to utilize that type of remote signal? I'm tired of these fucking garbage remotes.

If it worked from anywhere in the house then it must have been a low or high radio frequency. To be a universal remote and have that functionality when interfaced with old remote recivers it would be two parts. One would be the remote with the radio signal output and the other, a stationary object that pointed at the reciver (tv, vcr, etc.) for outputing infrared but also recived the radio signal broadcast from the remote. What that object would have to do is translate the individual radio frequencies to the individual infrared signals (which are offset from eachother in such a way that the starting point- i.e. the "code" that must be programmed for output- has different signals seperated much like we see in game hacking [ .001-power, .002-ch up, .004- ch down, etc.]). This is also why different infrared remotes typically don't overlap; The starting points can something like .1201 or .12019. Of course none of this is accurate for actual numbers or inner workings, it's just an example.

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I have to return some video tapes.

Feed me a stray cat.

Heh, it would have been silly of me to think that I was the first one to think of the two part set but I've never seen one before. That's neat ^_^

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