>Is anyone used the PIC, like PIC16F84 or 16C84 to simulate the IR
>remote controller signal (RC-5) before (simulate the encoder)?

If you do a web search for "RC5" you will turn up a fair number of =
sites, including some that give a reverse engineered set of commands. =
From memory there are a couple of sites that deal with building a =
controller around a PIC.

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