I see there is a application called irreco in the works, it uses the IR transmitter to be able to emulate being a general universal remote for mostly TV's and stuff.

It looks a bit too complicated for me to want to mess with right now, lots of steps involved in getting it to install/work and then even more to find your tv set.

The N900 is like the swiss army knife of mobile devices, and while it would be cool to be able to substitute my tv remote in a pinch with my phone I thought of another IR device that I would love to use even more.

My Nikon D70, it has a IR receiver so you can trigger the shutter from a distance, really good for HDR shots and a few other things, I figure this should be easy as the remote to do this is just 1 button and one frequency.

If somebody can track down that command for the Nikon and make it into a simple desktop widget you can mash to send the IR signal I would be super happy.

Chances of me having camera on hand and not having that remote (left in bag or left at home) are much higher than not having a TV remote, and no need for some big program to import IR commands or make a custom UI. Just need a single widget.

If any of you awesome developers and fellow photographers are up to the task please let me know, I'll be happy to test.

Brainstorm item: http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...l_dslr_signals

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Here's the tech description for Nikon cameras:

http://www.bigmike.it/ircontrol/

I'm not familiar with irreco to make it into something useful, but it's a start.

I don't know how to add additional commands to the irreco db, but here is the LIRC config file:
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/nikon/ML-L3

You could take the timings from attila's link to improve this lirc config file.

I think the problem is to do it without irreco, a direct signal input for single action for different camera types.

No idea how it works on the N900 yet - but the code to get it to fire from my Pronto remote is:

0000 006c 0008 0000 004c 042b 0010 003c 0010 0089 0010 0978 004c 042b 0010 003c 0010 0089 0010 042b

That one signal works for many nikon models, also rather than start another thread another wiget/application I would like to see along the same lines is what I would call "easy off"

Basically the N900 version of those little keychain devices that are designed to turn on/off any tv. All it does is you hold down the button and it cycles through all the major power commands for television sets.

I'll just quote what I posted in the irreco thread:

I'll submit my ideas to brainstorm a bit later when I find the time, got baby sitting duty to tend too for now.

This is an awesome idea. How about for a Canon Rebel as well?

How about for all available cam-remotes? and stop this being mentioned for every cam...

keep this forum clean please

From what I can tell most remotes are available by lirc so they would just need to be added.