Re: [offtopic] Re: I2c was: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:20:28 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > > i2c is what holds the control circuitry of the average tv set together (
> > > and incidentally why tv cards for PC's tend to use i2c onboard). There
> > > is linux backend support for i2c too.
> >
> > One imho major drawback is that i2c is limited to about 4 meters. If
> > you want more you need special bus converters or something like
> > that.
> >
> > This is from memory, having looked at i2c for home-control about 5
> > years ago.
>
> Would it be possible to crack open my TV, find the tuner area, locate the
> I2C, hook it to the computer and sniff it, then use the computer to
> control the TV? (same for microwave and other such devices)?
For a TV, hooking up infrared LEDs to your computer is an alternative solution.
Then your computer can play programmable remote control.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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