Delete comment from: Ken Shirriff's blog
hello ken,
first of all: great work, really helped me out with my project(or better: could'nt have done it without you)
but i had one last problem: get my remote to control my pc via arduino.
a very easy way: receive the ir-code with the arduino, but don't "hard-encode" the received signal, just pass it to the serial output. now use "eventghost", an open source automation tool and the serial plugin to receive the input and tell the tool what to do (mouse up, press space, control xbmc or whatever you want). took me at least 1 week to figure it all out (im not a programmer), but with eventghost you are completely independent from received codes ect - its much more flexible then doing in a sketch for arduino...)
i just hard endoded one button of my remote: for turning the pc on via arduino...
hope this helps somebody, if there are questions: randaley@gmail.com
Jun 20, 2012, 12:46:10 PM
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