December 2004
Beginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
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Chapter 6, Control Your Home Theater
You also need to create the emit-
ter cables, as shown in Figure 6-9,
using basically the same techniques:
applying electrical tape to keep the
leads from touching, and optionally
using shrink tubing.
Finally, connect the UIRT2 to the
PC using the serial cable that was supplied with the kit. Connect the power
supply, and you’re ready to start teaching it some tricks!
The IR Signal Processor
Now that you’ve built the UIRT2, you need to teach your PC how to con-
trol it. There’s no better way to do this than with the free Girder program.
Girder can respond to any input, not just infrared signals, and translate that
input into action. For this project you’ll focus on receiving infrared signals
from a single remote and retransmitting sequences of infrared signals to
control multiple devices.
1. Obtain and install Girder
Girder is a free download from http://www.girder.nl. I recommend down-
loading the installer version rather than the zip file version. Installing it is as
simple as clicking Next a bunch of times and accepting a license agreement
along the way.
You’re also going to need to download the UIRT plug-in—not the UIRT
USB plug-in—to control the UIRT2. This plug-in comes as a zip file that
contains only one DLL, which you should extract to the Girder plug-ins
folder (usually found in
c:\Program Files\girde ...
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