soldering wrong led?

[chesspro]

hey this is probably a stupid question,

but if i soldered the ir led in the wrong order (it should be white, blue, blue, white but instead i did white, blue, white, blue), would it affect anything (range?)

Thanks!

[adafruit]

doenst really make a difference at all, just keep going!

[chesspro]

Thanks!

Oh and another question. I'm looking at http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/ right now to look up the codes for sony's devices.

So just for an example, I found this and stored them in hi.txt:

0000 0067 0000 000d 0061 0017 0031 0017 0031 0017 0031 0017 0019 0018 0019 0017 0019 0017 0019 0017 0031 0018 0019 0017 0019 0018 0019 0017 0031 03ef

I want to use the parsegen3.pl to convert these codes and compress them.

Would I just do "perl parsegen3.pl hi.txt"?

I tried looking at http://www.ladyada.net/make/tvbgone/design.html for how to convert the codes but none of the codes found on http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/ seem to match the format given on http://www.ladyada.net/make/tvbgone/design.htm (e.g. 0019 vs. 0xE2) Sorry if this is a noob question. What format are the codes listed on http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/?

And if they aren't in the correct format, does parsegen3.pl do that converting for me?

Thank you so much again

[adafruit_support_bill]

Looks like just a different form of hexadecimal encoding. The '0x' prefix is needed for the C compiler.

Assuming that the RemoteCentral codes are strings of bytes, you should be able to replace the leading '00' with a '0x' on each.

[adafruit]

parsegen is ONLY for the IR capture files in the zip file, which we made. it isnt for anything else.

[chesspro]

hmm, thanks!

also, I've tried looking online but is there any program to convert the pronto hex format to the format that parsegen3.pl can recognize?

Or do I actually have to get some type of hardware to capture the raw IR codes?

Thanks again

[chesspro]

nevermind, there's a guide here on how to do it, incase others are curious: http://www.remotecentral.com/features/irdisp3.htm

I'll report back on updates

[chesspro]

Another quick question,

After converting from the pronto format to Tv-b-gone compressed format, I get the below (this is actually for apple's remote nec format for the menu button). I put this back into WORLDcodes.c.

Now how do I generate the tvbgone.hex that is necessary to flash the tvbgone with? Do I just run the make file? Or do I need to compile WORLDcodes.c (and if so with just gcc WORLDcodes.c)?
(I'm using the avrdude for mac pack)

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#ifdef NA_CODES
const uint16_t code_na000Times[] PROGMEM = {
        56, 56,
        56, 172,
        905, 456,
        56, 3782,
   905, 226,
   56, 9689,
};
const struct IrCode code_na000Code PROGMEM = {
        freq_to_timerval(37683),
        36,             // # of pairs
        3,              // # of bits per index
        code_na000Times,
        {
      0x6C,
      0x92,
      0xC9,
      0x24,
      0x96,
      0xDB,
      0x24,
      0xB6,
      0xDB,
      0x6C,
      0x92,
      0xCB,
      0x2E,
      0x50,
         }
};

[chesspro]

actually, I realized what was wrong (stupid me, I should've typed "make" into terminal)

so if I already built my tv-b-gone kit and I want to reflash the chip, can I just connect the tv b gone to the tinyispusb to my computer? I read somewhere I have to take off the resistors connecting to the led's before I can actually reflash it

Which resistor is this? R5 or R1 ? R5 being the one closest to the green led light and r1 being the one closest to the rom.

Here's a (blurry, sorry) picture of my tv-b-gone kit http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21563/tvbgone.jpg

[adafruit]

you have have to clip the resistor thats next to the chip