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by robforrest
Fri May 04, 2012 9:15 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Invitation to order from RS
Replies: 575
Views: 103654

Re: Invitation to order from RS

It is painfully slow and full of errors. Thankfully if you're just a tiny bit patient and keep trying you'll get through eventually.

Really looking forward to getting mine!
by robforrest
Fri May 04, 2012 9:02 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Invitation to order from RS
Replies: 575
Views: 103654

Re: Invitation to order from RS

Yup, I'm getting the same here.  With a bit of jiggery pokery you can get the authorisation code in but then there's no way of submitting the form.

I think RS might have let us down, again.

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by robforrest
Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:35 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Spoofing an IR receiver to connect to an amp
Replies: 7
Views: 3107

Re: Spoofing an IR receiver to connect to an amp

<t>@bsmulders Thanks for that, that was the exact response I was looking for, a whole load of information there.<br/> <br/> @Gert, I'm not sure that would work. If I understand that previous link correctly then IR signals are Manchester encoded meaning that even if 3 consecutive bits are set to high...
by robforrest
Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:59 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Spoofing an IR receiver to connect to an amp
Replies: 7
Views: 3107

Re: Spoofing an IR receiver to connect to an amp

<t>That's fine, I'm not interested in receiving IR signals at all.<br/> <br/> The main purpose of this is to be able to control the amp via the same web interface as the media server, for instance being able to turn the volume up.  For this, all I would ever have to do is send IR.<br/> <br/> When yo...
by robforrest
Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:34 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Spoofing an IR receiver to connect to an amp
Replies: 7
Views: 3107

Re: Spoofing an IR receiver to connect to an amp

<r>Hi All,<br/> <br/> I'm getting really excited about this whole R-Pi thing, its looking great so far.<br/> <br/> My first project is going to be using the R-Pi as a media server.  Its going to sit just behind my amp, connect via HDMI, run a small web server that will serve as a front end to m-play...

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