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- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!concert!rock!gingell
- From: gingell@rock.concert.net (Michael J Gingell -- Personal Account)
- Subject: auto wake up remote control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.140035.24051@rock.concert.net>
- Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:00:35 GMT
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- A few days ago I posted a request asking how to wake up your HP95
- run a program and then go back to sleep for a while until the next
- scheduled event. The application I had in mind was for myREMOTE a
- program which turns your '95 into an infra-red remote control.
-
- With the posting of power95 there is a least one workable solution.
- Power95 allows you to change the wakeup time of the HP95 from
- midnight to any specific time and to activate or deactivate the
- wakeup. It will also turn the power off. Also myREMOTE has a mode
- where you can call it from a DOS command line thus:
-
- myremote vcr 5 calls the 5th command in the vcr.ir command file
-
- and returns to DOS. So here is an example of a batch file that
- should wake up, start a VCR at 2PM, stop it at 3PM, then tomorrow
- do the same thing at 5PM. By building a much larger batch file
- there is no limit to the complexity of sequences one can control
- over any number of days. You can also have any number of device
- files, not just vcr.ir. It would also be more efficent and error
- free to write a simple program to automatically generate a command
- file from a sequence of simpler statements.
-
- auto_ir.bat file:
-
- power95 135900 set wake up 60 secs before 2pm
- power95 off 95 goes to sleep and suspends batch till 2pm
- myremote vcr 3 VCR power on
- power95 135930 change wakeup to 30 30 secs in the future
- power95 off back to sleep
- myremote vcr 4 VCR record
- power95 150000 set next wakeup for stop
- power95 off zzzzz
- myremote vcr 2 VCR stop
- myremote vcr 3 VCR power off
- power95 000000 wait till midnight
- power95 off
- power95 165900 wakeup at midnight, set next wakup for 4:59PM
- power95 off
- myremote vcr 3 VCR power on
-
- .... and so on
-
- A big thank you to the author of power95, Dennis Nara.
-
- Note that myREMOTE is a commercial program from ACE technologies, I am
- just a happy user. I have also just ftpd the ir95 but havn't had time
- to check it out yet. Does it have a DOS callable mode like myREMOTE?
- --
- Mike Gingell gingell@rock.concert.net
- Raleigh, NC USA
-