Thread: Tablets as a universal remote ?
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Frank Banul is offline Frank Banul
2008-10-31 , 18:23
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A built in IR transmitter is probably the better answer. The N900 needs an IR transmitter built in. But that probably doesn't fit with it's "theme" very well.

Thanks for the pointer, it didn't offer a reasonably priced solution but did give me some more things to think about.

Frank

Originally Posted by josiahg777 View Post
We've already got Irreco for the tablets: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=15919

Also, if you were interested in a more complicated hack, there's three different LEDs in the upper left corner on the N810 at least (I don't know about the N800). Unless you absolutely need Red, Green, AND Blue notification LEDs then you could replace one of them with an infared LED and replace the plastic "window" over the LEDs with some infared-transparent material I don't actually know anything about the feasibility of this as I have no idea how finely the LEDs can be controlled. (I believe they're accessible by DBUS commands)