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- From: ua123@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Matthew A. Skala)
- Subject: IR remote control summary!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.193347.461@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:33:47 GMT
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- Many thanks to all who sent me info on IR remote controls for VCRs.
- Here's a summary of the information I got:
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- brianr@tekig1.pen.tek.com (Brian Rhodefer) says that Radio Shack makes an
- IR receiver module that could be used - it contains a phototransistor,
- tuned amplifier, and demodulator that operates at 40 kHz.
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- bbs.haymore@tsoft.net (Ed Haymore) says that his friend was experimenting
- with this sort of thing and most VCRs used a carrier frequency of about 38
- kHz, digital on-off-keying modulation.
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- jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) says that most VCRs use digital
- pulses of 40 kHz carrier.
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- So based on this information, it sounds like a frequency of 40 kHz is
- pretty standard as a carrier. So what I plan to do is use a 567 tone
- decoder to demodulate the signal, a 555 to modulate, when sampling just
- time-stamp the edges of the modulation and play that back into the 555 at
- 40 kHz. This is very short-range, so it doesn't matter if the transmit
- frequency is a bit off and is just on the edge of the VCR receiver's passband.
-
- Again, many thanks to all who tried to help - I'm new to Usenet and you've
- all given me a warm welcome.
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- Matthew Skala - VE7MSK - ua123@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
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