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Jed | 29 Sep 2009 05:54

Linux PC as a wifi to IR bridge?

Is it possible to turn a Linux based PC into a Wifi <--> IR bridge/blaster?
I was hoping I could plug in a 802.11g adapter and a IR transceiver and 
create something like this?

I want to be able to issue commands from a hand-held via wifi to this 
machine and have it redirect them as IR commands.
It would also be good if this machine could receive IR feedback & 
transmit this data via wifi back to the hand-held.

Cheers,
Jed

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Jed | 30 Sep 2009 18:47

Re: Linux PC as a wifi to IR bridge?

Hi,

Any thoughts/suggestions? T'would be greatly appreciated!
This is "roughly" what I have in mind... (see attached .txt)

Jed wrote:
> Is it possible to turn a Linux based PC into a Wifi <--> IR 
> bridge/blaster?
> I was hoping I could plug in a 802.11g adapter and a IR transceiver 
> and create something like this?
>
> I want to be able to issue commands from a hand-held via wifi to this 
> machine and have it redirect them as IR commands.
> It would also be good if this machine could receive IR feedback & 
> transmit this data via wifi back to the hand-held.
>
> Cheers,
> Jed
>

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Jed | 1 Oct 2009 18:59

Re: Linux PC as a wifi to IR bridge?

Thoughts from any others on this? Final spam from me.
Off to actually try openremote + some stuff after this!
This is "roughly" what I have in mind... (see attached .txt)

Jed wrote:
Is it possible to turn a Linux based PC into a Wifi <--> IR bridge/blaster?
I was hoping I could plug in a 802.11g adapter and a IR transceiver and create something like this?

I want to be able to issue commands from a hand-held via wifi to this machine and have it redirect them as IR commands.
It would also be good if this machine could receive IR feedback & transmit this data via wifi back to the hand-held.

Cheers,
Jed

ÿþM

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Jed | 2 Oct 2009 17:10

Re: Linux PC as a wifi to IR bridge?

This is it, no more spam from me, thanks to everyone that's offered 
their thoughts. Hopefully I'll get a few more, if not, tis all good!

If you look at diagram I'm hoping to devise a device that acts a central 
controller for consumer electronics & home automation.
I want a hand-held to interface with it, this hand-held would ideally 
also have IR integrated, but it's not imperative as Wifi would be used 
mostly.

So far the best solution I've found is this
http://openremote.org/display/HOME/OpenRemote

You don't have to use their reference hardware but something low 
power/profile like it I think would be ideal.
It's critical you have JRE + Apache Tomcat installed/configured 
properly, I'd probably run this software on top of Ubuntu or LinuxMCE.

I was also thinking of integrating the entire thing into my existing 
HTPC/PVR but I'm not sure yet, it might be better to have 
dedicated/separate machine.
This controller would be able to send/receive via; wifi, Ethernet, IR, 
X10, & perhaps some other proprietary RF protocols & would be connected 
to the net.

Interested in other peoples ideas, have you tried something similar, or 
have you heard of a better platform then openremote?

Cheers,
Jed

>> Jed wrote:
>>> Is it possible to turn a Linux based PC into a Wifi <--> IR 
>>> bridge/blaster?
>>> I was hoping I could plug in a 802.11g adapter and a IR transceiver 
>>> and create something like this?
>>>
>>> I want to be able to issue commands from a hand-held via wifi to 
>>> this machine and have it redirect them as IR commands.
>>> It would also be good if this machine could receive IR feedback & 
>>> transmit this data via wifi back to the hand-held.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jed
>>>

ÿþM

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