From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 14:52:14 PDT
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:21:08PM -0500, Wiley Wiggins wrote:
> Just a thought, you know the new iMac G5 is the first infrared
> enabled (well, the iSight on it is able to pick up ir in order to
> work with the Apple Remote) mac since the Bondi Blue iMac. Obviously
> there is no ir stack on OS X to allow communication with a newt.. but
> I wonder how hard it would be to hack such a thing?
rummage around and see if you can find Mac OBEX tools.
> I wonder how hard
> it would be to get a newt to transmit Apple remote signals to control
> Front Row!?
That's one of those things where it gets much easier if someone produced
the technical details of the IR remote protocol. If someone doesn't, and
it becomes a matter of reverse engineering the thing with a high-speed
IR camera or something, then the odds of it happening go way, way down.
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