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Re: [ECS] Busy state idea Dan Carrington Sun, 30 May 1999 17:22:44 -0700

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I don't mean 2-way.  I mean send a series of IR commands that are buffered so
automation continues as they are sent.  Then when they are all sent, you can
trigger something else.  In the same way as speaking.  Things may want to be
triggered after the speaking is done.  This allows the IR buffering to be used,
but watched.

Dan




Bill Walters wrote:
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> Dan,
> 
> What/how would this be useful?  I'm kind of a "beginner" with the ir
> stuff; only have the "basics" of 1 way ir control so far.  Using
> smart-linc probes to determine on/off status of tv/av rcvr/sat rcvr/vcr
> and have ir emitters to each of them for signals from ecs.
> 
> I would like to have 2 way IR control as only way ecs knows vcr is in
> record state is if it commands it.
> 
> Bill Walters
> 
> Dan Carrington wrote:
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> > Could the "busy" type of state be applied to the background transmission of IR?
> > Could there be an item like "IR buffer count" that holds the number of IR
> > commands waiting to be sent?  We could then watch it for the count to go to 0 or
> > a specified number to have other things happen.  The best of both worlds!!  Just
> > set the buffer count item up to each IR interface and have it watch the buffers.
> >
> > Dan Carrington

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