🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <gwatts-1510952317460001@slip52.fnal.gov>, gwatts@fnal.fnal.gov
(Gordon Watts) wrote:

Hi, all. I'm the guy who poested the original message, and despite a few
skeptical responses, I'm glad to see that there's an interest...if anyone
manages to get the thing working, I'll trade a Mac SE with one of the
universal remotes (I have a spare) for a copy...and I'd love to get in on
any graphic design involved (splash screens, buttons, packaging, a home
page to sell the thing...

  :I'll have to visit KMart tomorrow.  If they look good, I'll have to look
  :into the devleoper's manual... the question is -- how detailed is it?  I
  :could always reverse engineer, using a third terminal to monitor the
  :character stream, but I'm not into spending 50 bucks for a throw away DOS
  :program... (not rich enough yet).
  :
  :> If somebody were to make a Mac Interface (preferably ADB or using
  :> the GPI pin, since my serial ports are both in use) I would buy
  :> it, and you can probably interest the techmall/smarthome people
  :> into carrying it as a product.
  :
  :This requires hardware, which, unfortunately, is beyond me.  Perhaps if I
  :were to get a serial version going, someone might step forward...

The serial version should be easier--that's how it runs on the PC side.

  :> Tell Remote
  :>         select VCR
  :>         set channel to 42
  :>         record
  :>         set channel of RADIO to 103.7
  :>         set volume of RADIO to 11

Ooooh, yeah. Scriptability would be really cool, especially since it would
allow a client-server version to run across appletalk. I've thought from
the beginning that a dedicated smarthome server would be a cool use for an
old Mac (like my ungracefully aging II, or even all the way back to the
Plus.) Leave the monitor turned off and run it from the main Mac, or even
via remote access...

A more complete, slick front end would be nice, but there any calendar
program that can send scheduled Apple Events would make the scripting
option tremendeously powerful--the number of events is limited only by
your storage space, and you'd have to program an event every 5 minutes for
years to fill a few megs.

  :Harumph.  My radio only goes to 10.  Yours must be better. :-)

But what about the tuners that go from -50 to 0? I guess the lower you
turn the knob, the more loudly the people at the radio station can hear
the song that you've got stuck in your head.

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