I was thinking about building a remote control receiver for controlling music on my PC. The transmitter would be the universal AV remote that came with my Panasonic XR55...I figured I could use it's generic functions to act as next track, previous track, play/pause, stop and any other functions like random track or something.
Writing a foobar2000 extension which reads data from the serial port is no problem. What I need to do is figure out how this remote works and how to build a receiver. I figured a fun way to learn would be to just hook up an IR photoreceptor to my serial port and write a simple program to decode the bitstream. Probably more difficult than it sounds, but I figure all I'd need to do is recognize a few commands anyway.
I've been Googling but I can't seem to find something simple enough - are there any pages on the basics of how remotes work? Or rather, how the specific hardware and encoding processes work (since I know how they work in principle)? I've found articles on making complete DIY remotes with custom transmitters but I'm not sure how it would work using my generic AV remote. Any suggestions?
Writing a foobar2000 extension which reads data from the serial port is no problem. What I need to do is figure out how this remote works and how to build a receiver. I figured a fun way to learn would be to just hook up an IR photoreceptor to my serial port and write a simple program to decode the bitstream. Probably more difficult than it sounds, but I figure all I'd need to do is recognize a few commands anyway.
I've been Googling but I can't seem to find something simple enough - are there any pages on the basics of how remotes work? Or rather, how the specific hardware and encoding processes work (since I know how they work in principle)? I've found articles on making complete DIY remotes with custom transmitters but I'm not sure how it would work using my generic AV remote. Any suggestions?
