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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

by Eric Faulkner, Tony Northrup
December 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part II: Home Entertainment
16. Click the Learn Event button to associate a remote button with the
command.
17. Click the button on your remote that you want to associate with the
command. (The Play button is an obvious choice.)
18. To prevent multiple signals from being processed, select the Event
String entry below the Play command and enter an antirepeat wait time
of 500 milliseconds.
19. Test the command with your remote.
You can use the same technique to process the remaining functions like
Stop, Rewind, Pause, and so on. Because Girder uses a binary file format
for its configurations, a listing cannot be included in this book; however,
you can download a command group from the web site at http://www.
homehacking.com.
Wrapping Up
Controlling your PC via an infrared remote allows you to seamlessly inte-
grate PC functions with everyday life. Music and video applications are a
great start. Tell the other people in your household that anything they can
imagine is probably configurable, and be open to their suggestions about
improving whatever you come up with. Sometimes what makes perfect
sense to a geek can be utterly meaningless to “regular” people.
Extensions
Now that you have a remote-controlled PC, there’s virtually no limit to
what you can do. If you have a home theater PC (see the project Building an
HTPC) and an X10 computer ...
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