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Rod
September 8th, 2007, 06:21 PM
I wish to use this program to control my cable box, to set the channel at scheduled times and dates, using the IR send feature of the Global Cache GC-100. For example, I would like the program to send IR commands from the GC-100 to the cable box at 8pm every Monday, to change the cable box to channel 12. I am not sure how to make the program do this. Sorry for being such a newbie!! So far I have been able to set up the hardware (GC-100) and manually send a single IR command to change the cable box channel, (so all the connections are working) but I'm not clear how to automate this process. Specifically, I don't understand 1)how to send several IR commands in a row (such as the IR command for '1' and then '2' in the example above) and 2)how to set up the scheduler to automate this process. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance! (And remember, I am an extreme newbie!);)

Rod
September 8th, 2007, 08:39 PM
Ok, I see you can list a string of IR commands for an action, so I know how to send the command to change to, say, channel 12..... but I still can't figure out how to schedule this action? I have a .gml file called "channel-12" that sends the IR command to change the cable box to channel 12. How do I schedule this to occur when I want it to occur? What is the 'trigger' event?