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Re: [ECS] Busy state idea Bill Walters Sun, 30 May 1999 19:53:37 -0500

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OK, understand and yes, that makes sense....  Like I have my receiver
"mute" when a phone call comes in, so we can hear the announcement.

Bill


Dan Carrington wrote:
> 
> 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:
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > > 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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