GeorgeK
March 8th, 2004, 10:10 PM
Hi,
I am a newbie at trying to set up an IP-based remote control. I bought a Viewsonic ViewPad 1000 tablet PC (Windows XP) and will attempt to make it into an IP-based remote control for my AV system. I have an ethernet home network running, but am not running an HTPC nor am I planning one for the short term. I can put up software that I would need on any of my desktop PCs, but, if I understand things correctly, it would seem that I could mostly load software directly on the ViewPad, since I bought this model precisely because it is not a "smart display" (these seem to be about as smart as a 4-bit microprocessor) but is rather is a pretty decent PC.
What I would like to do as far as control goes is to get an IP-to-IR bridge, so that I would plug it into an Ethernet port near my AV system, then hook up a bunch of IR blasters into to it control the gear. Curiously, IP-to-IR bridges do not seem to get a lot of publicity. So far, I've encountered these four:
--Global Caché GC-100
--Barix "IR Ethernet Gateway"
--Philips NTX6400
--CorAccess A/V bridge
What is the experience with these? Good luck? Problems? Which ones would be viable to use with NetRemote? Are there others that might be better, that I haven't found? Any other useful guidance for my project?
Thanks,
I am a newbie at trying to set up an IP-based remote control. I bought a Viewsonic ViewPad 1000 tablet PC (Windows XP) and will attempt to make it into an IP-based remote control for my AV system. I have an ethernet home network running, but am not running an HTPC nor am I planning one for the short term. I can put up software that I would need on any of my desktop PCs, but, if I understand things correctly, it would seem that I could mostly load software directly on the ViewPad, since I bought this model precisely because it is not a "smart display" (these seem to be about as smart as a 4-bit microprocessor) but is rather is a pretty decent PC.
What I would like to do as far as control goes is to get an IP-to-IR bridge, so that I would plug it into an Ethernet port near my AV system, then hook up a bunch of IR blasters into to it control the gear. Curiously, IP-to-IR bridges do not seem to get a lot of publicity. So far, I've encountered these four:
--Global Caché GC-100
--Barix "IR Ethernet Gateway"
--Philips NTX6400
--CorAccess A/V bridge
What is the experience with these? Good luck? Problems? Which ones would be viable to use with NetRemote? Are there others that might be better, that I haven't found? Any other useful guidance for my project?
Thanks,