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Anyone hear if there's any development going on for use with the Ryzmedia IR device?? I'd find it much more useful on my Eris than my itouch. Here's the link to the device webpage, and some technical information that might be helpful:
ryzmedia (dot) com
compendiumarcana (dot) com/iraudio/
From MobileCrunch:
You could go to Radio Shack right now and build one for $5. $10 is very fair, especially for the time and love put into it.
Basically what it is is two IR led’s connected to the right and left polarities of the headphone plug. Those LED’s are actually flipped opposing each other. This is needed because the standard headphone output only does 0-20k per channel and the normal IR remote operates at 38k. By putting one side to each of the functional channels and having that built in modulation gives you the ability to generate a 40k signal.
So how you do it is:
1: Record the IR behavior using a IR detector connected to the ground-single channel at as high of bit rate as possible (usually just 41k or 48k on a normal lappy – may be up to 192k)
2. Clean signal to get pure digital square wave
3. Reassign the signal to play back at 19k on a single channel
4. Invert that same single channel and assign that to the other channel
5. When played through your headphone port using the appropriate equipment it will show up out of the LED’s as a properly modulated 38k signal just PERFECT for controlling your TV!
I made a learning version that basically had a 4-pole plug and used the Mic port for the IR detector. The hard part is in getting the signal, turning it to 1/0′s, changing to 19k, and running inverted signals on each channel. I haven’t actually gotten that far and made it to test some things, but recording off the mic port does seem to be good enough to clean up on a PC and have it work. Though hope that the App Makr for Android will at least help me get an actual interface instead of a playlist….
Got any android audio experts in the house?
Hi.
I've got a chinese android device called Alpha Trident (h_t_t_p_:_/_/_w_w_w_.chinavasion.com/android-tablets-phones/alpha-trident-android-22-froyo-smartphone-with-35-inch-touchscreen-dual-sim-wifi/). It has a small telescopic analog antenna (PAL/NTSC).
The phone comes with a cool program called Mobile TV. It looks like this:
youtu.be/wo9y0WluN_0?t=1s
youtu.be/TO7sw3Vtpq8?t=2m35s
..these are just some random videos found on youtube. I get quite a poor signal (from other coutries), cause we dont have analog tv here.
Is there any way to receive the digital signal with this antenna? I mean... if you have a roof-top analog antenna you can just get a digital converter box and the digital signal should work. (at least i think so..)
PorkoSvinc said:
Is there any way to receive the digital signal with this antenna? I mean... if you have a roof-top analog antenna you can just get a digital converter box and the digital signal should work. (at least i think so..)
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This is not my understanding. You have to have a digital antenna to pick up the signal, then the converter box changes the digital signal to analog for the tv that only accepts analog signals. Analog antennas will NOT pick up a digital signal.
are you sure of that? cause im using an analog antenna to receive the digital signal when i am in italy. when they changed the analog signal in digital i just had to purchase a digital converter, keeping the same antenna.
In general, dependable reception of over-the-air digital TV programming will require the same type of signal reception equipment that currently works to provide good quality reception of analog TV programming. If you need a roof-top antenna to receive analog TV broadcasts, the same antenna generally will work to receive digital TV broadcasts. You should not have to purchase new antennas that are marketed as “digital ready” or “HD ready.”
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Would it be possible to stream my satellite television signal to an android device? The outputs on the satellite decoder are just the normal A/V variety, and I would like to be able to stream the video and audio to an android device (probably an android mini PC most of the time, but also a tablet occasionally) over my home wifi? What sort of hardware would I need etc?
Didn't think this would be some difficult but I am at the point now where I may have to send this in-car DLNA renderer back to amazon. See my wife has an iPhone and I have a Moto X Pure. We had bad experiences with bluetooth in-car audio and my previous bluetooth dongle just gave out so I purchased one of these
http://www.sabrent.com/category/audio/WF-RADU/
I thought DLNA while in car would be awesome and my wife could use the AirPlay functionality completely resolving our previous bluetooth connection and sound quality issues. Well I have got my wife all up and running but I seem to have hit a major road block on my phone!!
It's embarrassingly simple how easy it is to maintain a WIFI connection (for the sake of AirPlay) on IOS while routing all actual internet traffic through mobile data, thus allowing for music streaming from the internet via AirPlay, and all is well and good for her.
Now for me the story is entirely different. As if it isn't bad enough that the Google Play Music app that I subscribe and PAY for doesn't support a feature as ubiquitous as DLNA, but actually trying to accomplish was I was able to for my wife's iPhone on my Android has been hell. If you want to see exactly what I am trying to do looks like on IOS, go to that link I posted above and there is actually a video description explaining how simple it is and what it looks like. Basically the phone doesn't even appear to be connected to wifi as it actually shows LTE in the status bar, however it is still silently connected via wifi to the DLNA renderer to allow for streaming. There seems to be no way to accomplish this on Android.
I made the mistake of thinking it would be just as simple and went into my wifi static IP settings only to have my heart sink. So the long short, is there any way I can have my mobile data running all internet traffic WHILE maintaining a WIFI connection to my in-car DLNA renderer or should I just print the shipping label now and send this thing back? Thanks for all the help!!!
Has anyone managed to program the smart control app to work on Sky Q in the uk?
I tried getting it to learn IR from the remote with no success.
Thanks
I'm pretty sure the Sky Q remote uses bluetooth to send signals to the box. If you cover the end of the remote with your hand you can still operate the box, while the IR for the TV won't work.