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From: "Hazelwood Lyle" <LHazelwood@MFGNC.COM>

>One of the "Big Guys" on this list has posted a great deal of useful
>information regarding how to decode IR remotes. I hope he doesn't mind
>if I aim you towards his website.

>www.ustr.net

>You'll find info on most of the popular remote schemes, and even sample
>code (though not all PIC) for decoding it. This should help you get
>going.

Thanks Lyle, that's a really nice site.  Sadly it seems to confirm my
fears.  It looks like I'm going to have to use the typical bit-bang
approach to sync with the data.  Much like receiving serial data.  They
didn't have a PIC example (that I found anyway) for doing it, but I
don't need one as I've bit-banged before using TMR0 to set the sampling
points for an interrupt routine.  The goal here is for me to learn how
to implement this myself, I just need a nudge in the right direction now
and then.  ;-)

I was hoping for some clever way to solve this without resorting to hard
delays between samples (not implying that is wrong or anything, I'm just
trying to "master" the capture/compare stuff now ;-)

I guess I'll just have to bit-bang it for the RC5 controller I have,
though surely there are other (more dynamic) ways to do it that aren't
so dependant upon critical timing.  I also have an old Sony controller,
but it's bigger.  They are PWM'd (sorta) and should work well with
Capture mode.  I wish these people would standardize this stuff instead
of dreaming up and patenting obscure and incompatible methods.

thanks again  ;-)

michael

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