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In article <5367@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP writes:
>In article <3090@utai.UUCP> dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) writes:
>>    I have a SONY TV at home with a RM-729 remote control.  I was
>>wondering if anybody knew the protocol the remote uses to talk
>>to the TV.  Are the signals these things send standardized to any
>I don't know what protocol Sony uses, but I once wanted to know how
>these things worked.  This worked for me, maybe it will work for you:
>	1. Get a photodiode from Radio Shack....
>	3. Borrow an oscilloscope from the hardware guy in step 3.
>	Set it up to measure the voltage across the diode.
>	4. Point the remote control at the diode and fire away,
>	observing the signal on the 'scope.

Wouldn't it have been simpler to use the 'scope to look at the voltage
driving the remote control's LED (presuming the unit could be nondestructively
opened up)?
>Tim Smith       USENET: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim   Compuserve: 72257,3706
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