Thread: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
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2012-02-13 , 22:38
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Originally Posted by anyonebutthis View Post
I mentioned double bursting codes earlier as a way to increase range. This is done by using short bust of codes and then subsequently a long bust there after. This creates a optical pump affect that can be useful to increase range with some IR receivers.
Interesting; I've gotta admit, I don't understand exactly how that would work. I'm pretty sure that sort of thing would break the signal repetition mechanism for most of the protocol definitions I've seen; the receiving device would think that the user had pressed the key twice, rather than held down on it...

Are you planning to build in a macro feature into your program ? One that has timed events would be extremely helpful especially at the gym.
I'm not really sure about adding that sort of thing to the graphical interface (at least not in the immediate future), but I am thinking about providing a command-line interface to the Pierogi back-end code. That should allow folks to run scripts or cron jobs of commands, much as you are talking about. Admittedly, though, you can just run the LIRC server to do that sort of thing already.

All in all I would love the ability to just leave my phone on the night stand and let it flip through the pre-defined channels i set giving me the ability to rule out ("drop") channels as i go along using only a single button click.
Hmm. That does sound nice, but it also sounds quite a bit beyond my current user interface coding ability. Let me think about it a while...
 

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