Preface
Installation
Working with Alpha-IR
Hints
MISC
Contacting me

PREFACE

You should download this program from a ftp-site, btw it's very good!
With REMOTE, your HP is able to control several devices which are able to be controlled per infrared-red-remotes (some older versions not).

I once found REMOTE on a terminal on the university. So I copied on my HP48GX and - nothing. No command, only errors en masse! Then I read the readme and there I saw the hint to use the same directories as written and then - what a wonder - everything worked! Always read the manual first :-)

So far so good.
I have a SONY MHC-C50 Mini-HiFi-Tower (only at my student- room!) which has got a remote-control with 30 functions on it. With the pre-defined database from REMOTE, I was able to use 63 commands!!! There are several commands which I am able to use on my HP48 but not with my remote-control AND not on the SONY itself!

OK. But how could I use the HP for automatic alarms? Reading the doc-files, I found a hint for sending commands (Hex-numbers) with TRANSMIT.
I wanted to program my HP since I got it and so I began my first program! BTW I like the 'HP48G Series User's Advanced Reference Manual' very well!

As I finished the project, I thought, that YOU want to have this too for a perfect control of your HiFi-Tower. So you got it ...

OK, let's explain the basics:

I assume, that you have already installed REMOTE.

There are several presuppositions, which you have to read:

• Alpha-IR (the main-program) has to be in HOME. Therefore, you can start it from everywhere.
  You can rename it, to what you like to (you have to rename it because a hyphen is not allowed on your HP!).
  You may add it to your CST-file too.

• You have to copy
  
  • IRCODES (the code-database),
  • GETCODE (a sub-routine) and
  • CODES (a program to edit the database)
  in a directory. My files are in HOME BATCHES but you can copy them elsewhere as long as you replace in every file the words HOME BATCHES into your names (e.g.: HOME BATCHES -> HOME MYDIR1 MYDIR2).

  NOTE: IRCODES can also be generated *by hand* for the first time. You have to use CODES to enter all your IR-hex-commands! You get your commands from rem34bg by pressing Shift-right and the normal command. After the menu for the screen-character, you'll be shown the hex-code!
  There are also many codes in the readmes from your rem34bg-command-dir.

• You have to edit the file Alpha-IR to enter your Directory of REMOTE.
  Change the words HOME PROGRAMME REMOTE REMOTES VK into the directory of your DEVICE!

  If you want to use more than one device, create with REMOTE a new device with the most important codes of every device. If there are problems (devices which needs different modes of transmission) please mail to Bjorn Gahm (d89-bga@nada.kth.se).

My version of the directories:

Once the program is installed (correctly) it is much more easy to generate alarms with IR-commands. You can type *batch-files* with several commands in it such as start the amp, turn on cd-player, change to CD no.3, play song number 8, ...

Example:
I'll wake up with Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" (CD-Nr.3; Track 3) and after 6 Minutes and 20 Seconds I wish to hear the news on tuner-channel 2.

You generate an alarm ( ->, TIME, , Enter) and you enter as message:

<<
"AMP.ON" lIR
"CD.ON" lIR
"CD.DISC3" lIR
"CD.TRACK3" lIR
"CD.PLAY" lIR
6.3 60 * WAIT
"TUNER.2" lIR
OFF
>>

lIR ... the name of Alpha-IR on my HP
"..." ... IR-CODES
6.3 60 * ... because the WAIT -command wants to get seconds
OFF ... turn off your HP, and mine :-)

Everything alright?

• The Alpha-IR-filename should be short, so you don't have to type many characters after each command. ;-)

• You can turn your HP off after the first sequence and create a new alarm for changing to Tuner. That saves you energy!

• If you're often use the same commands, generate a batch-file and call it from the alarm-program.

Maybe you're wondering, why you have to call Alpha-IR after each command. If you have a better algorithm, mail me!

• EMail me, if you find this program useful and if I should write newer versions of it!

• EMail me, if you find this program awful and if I should NOT write newer versions of it!

• Don't hesitate to write me for helping to optimize the program or if you have questions or if you want to know if there's a newer version!

• If you want to begin programming your HP48, you can check out my source-code because there are a lot of comments for you.

• This is my FIRST program on the HP, so don't think I'm a perfect HP-programmer!

• Thanks to Christian Pfaffel for a help on GETCODE!

I hope this program can help you... Shine on !

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PS: Don't flame, if you find, that I can't speak english - I know it!