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- From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: HP48 + RPL + stereo system = super duper alarm clock
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- Date: 22 Dec 1992 06:56:50 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- Howdy,
- This posting is motivated mainly by me finally managing to get David
- Marsh's sampling IR remote program working. (One important key to the
- sampling remote is the string size. With a 2000 space string, the sample
- was unreliable. I finally managed to capture my Technics remote with a
- string of length 2500.) A big thanks also goes to Bjorn Gahm for doing the
- code-based IR remote program. Thanks to them and a bit of RPL work on my
- part, I now have an alarm clock that turns my stereo system on every work
- day morning. I'm just polishing up the program right now. Since I think
- a few other people might enjoy this program too, I'm gonna solicit some
- comments and ask a few questions before releasing it.
-
- Current features:
- o configurable wake-up time (separate time for each day of the week)
- o can skip alarm on holiday days (currently, only public Canadian
- holidays are known. if someone can give me the American holidays I
- would be willing to incorporate them.)
-
- Question:
- o I don't know how to compute Easter. Can anyone help? I've got an
- old posting from a David Turrell listing some references for the
- computation of Easter. However, I have no access to the material
- listed. (Most of them are from the PPC.) Can anyone point me to a
- readily accessible source? Pseudo-code would be appreciated too. :)
- o Have people been successful with Rick Grevelle's version of the
- sampling remote program (remote2)? I experimented with remote and
- remote2 but only managed to get remote to work. Alternatively, how
- do I compress the string from remote for use with remote2?
-
- George
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