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In article <1992Sep2.181547.28000@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mancus@zaphod.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:
>In article <BtyE2K.3ts@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>
>>>  (2) Is the encoding scheme standardized?
>> Not by a long shot.
> 
>  Odd.  I've seen "generic" controllers that can be programmed to
>drive a wide variety of remote-controlled devices.  It seems pretty
>difficult to do this w/out any standards!

Not so odd. A $20 cassette tape recorder can record and playback
spoken English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Afrikaans, etc. etc.
without their being any "standards" among the languages. Programmable IR
remotes work in precisely the same way: they memorize the signals your
remotes send, and duplicate those signals.

>> Borrow/obtain an oscilloscope....after playing around a bit,
>>you should be able to determine the encoding scheme used, or at the very
>>least which patterns go with which....
> 
>  <groan>  That's just what I was hoping to avoid.  Sigh.

Hey, it's not THAT bad. You'll definitely learn a lot! ;-)