and i guess there will be a reshacker aspect to it all... the icon that winLIRC puts in my systray is just plain ugly...

Nice.

i made an IR Receiver long time ago and tried some progs..

i think gIRder is much better than winLIRC..

with plugins u can make your own homemade multimedia station with video, sound (and so on) using a standard TV/VCR/HiFi remote.


test it, and make your own opinion link

Pretty cool stuff. I wonder what I could do with my lil winTV remote? O.o; It is something I would be interested in doing myself, I must admit.

methodik, that's really cool, i always wanted to have a remote for winamp.

i'll check those links and hope i can do something

Oh yeah, another tweaker hehe. I bought one of those old packard bell remotes they sell on ebay once. At the time i didn't know the receivers on those suck really bad. But it was fun for a while, heh.

For winamp, i like to use hotkeys. Always a few clicks away when you're working on the computer. And that autohide plugin saunders pointed out for winamp 2.x is the coolest imo.

Thats a lot better than the $80.00 I'm looking at spending on a wireless keyboard/mouse setup to control the computer on the otherside of the room since I can't figure out how to build my own remote.

Unless someone out there knows a way to control WMP9/winamp3 over a lan. Then I might be happy.

okay, first of all....

demlak: that link you gave me for girder really rocks! i appreciate the tip. much, much more superior to winLIRC. a little harder to use, more of a learniing curve i guess, but wow... talk about the level of control... being able to open programs at a click.... scripting... i'm going to be playing with this for a long time... i have winamp all configured with it now, and i'm also finding that it reads my remote with far more accuracy, almost like using a remote with a real stereo or something. so much thanks!


spyder and all interested...: the link i gave for the LIRC site has the best instructions for building your own receiver, with real easy to understand schematics. the hardest part was finding the IC component, which of course is the most important. but depending on where you live, any good electronics store should be able to order them up for you.
and of course it can use any remote, so no problem there...

schminimalist: hotkeys are great, but how great is it to be having a a few people over and being able to use your 'puter as a stereo.

johnnyfist: checkout winamp site for plugins. i know i've seen a few that allow you to control winamp either through a browser or i even saw one that allowed control through telnet. ( although that was a 2.X plugin... i prefer 2.9 over 3... )

red: i'd check out that link that demlak gave.... i noticed that that program supports a whole range of remotes & recievers.

well.. girder supports every IR-Receiver, coz it?s using plugin-drivers. just depends on "is there a driver for my receiver?"

girder supports to remote EVERY application on a windows pc.

u have to choose between preconfigured plugins for some appz, or make your own, one time u understand how this works, u will allways make fast and easy for every programm a controll over ir-remote.

play around a little bit.. it?s much easyer as it looks =)

Oooh, five CANADIAN? That's excessively affordable!

(and by the way, I did the math, and it comes out to $0.32 USD )

Dude.. whoa.. I think you misplaced your decimal.
I calculate that as $3.44 US. Not 32 cents!
Unless you were joking, in which case, I'll feel pretty foolish.

Currency Conversion, it?s that simple =)

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