any way to make CLIE RMC work on a non-CLIE PDA?

[dúnadan]

I'd love to have it on my Palm, but ti won't install correctly. Anyone found a workaround?

[OcellNuri]

Clie RMC is talking to hardware that only the Clie has. It will not work on any other devices because the hardware is not there.

[rhart00]

I am not sure why you would want the Clie RMC anyways. There are better 3rd party remotes that are "learning" and more customizable. Only reason I use the Clie RMC is because it is the only thing that takes advantage of the enhanced IR on clie PDAs

[dúnadan]

Originally posted by rhart00
I am not sure why you would want the Clie RMC anyways. There are better 3rd party remotes that are "learning" and more customizable. Only reason I use the Clie RMC is because it is the only thing that takes advantage of the enhanced IR on clie PDAs

the reason i don't like the third party options is because they are learning. they don't do anything out of the box. if i walk into a bar with omniremote pro on my Tungsten, I can't control the TV unless I train my T|T whereas with my wife's TG50 or my T615 I can just tell it that there's a JVC TV around and boom I'm in control.

There should be a way to get it to work. after all, sony's "enhanced" IR may work over greater distances than the old Sony IR (on the N-series, etc), but it doesn't travel any further than the standard Palm IR.

[thenightfly42]

Originally posted by dúnadan
after all, sony's "enhanced" IR may work over greater distances than the old Sony IR (on the N-series, etc), but it doesn't travel any further than the standard Palm IR.
Actually, I believe that there are two IR blasters in the Clie, a standard Palm-style for regular beaming, and a second enhanced for remote control-type operations.

If not, I am quite sure that it requires a separate language, since it took a while for the 3rd party companies to figure out how to take advantage of the enhanced IR.

[OcellNuri]

You are right nightfly... there are physically two diodes in the Clie. It is a whole different set of hardware to control the "Enhanced" IR port. I don't know if it would be possible to write a sort of intercepting program that could take the instructions that would normally go to the Clie IR port and redirect them (with a bit of modification I'm sure) to the Palm IR port. Or... if you could just write a remote control app for the Palm that can read the database files from the ClieRMC app. That sounds like your best bet right there.