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- From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Can you wake up HP95 and run a program
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:15:00 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
- Lines: 48
- Message-ID: <1hng74INNadh@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec28.154114.16150@rock.concert.net>
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- In article <1992Dec28.154114.16150@rock.concert.net> gingell@rock.concert.net (Michael J Gingell -- Personal Account) writes:
- >
- >Having some specific needs for an automatic remote control
- >I have just installed myRemote on my HP95 and it works very well.
- >So far I have tested on 3 different VCRs, 2 satellite receivers,
- >a pioneer multi-cassette tape deck and a remote control AV switch.
- >All work perfectly.
-
- I haven't tried any of the HP95 sampling remote program. How large is each
- sample?
-
- >Now my problem. What I would like to do is to be able to program
- >a sequence of events at different times on different days and have
- >it run the myRemote program. (It does have a built in timer but
- >only up to 24 hours from the time you launch a command).
-
- So myRemote has a internal timer that knows how to wake up the 95 and do a
- command, but only within 24 hours? Why not contact the author and see if
- he's willing to extend its capabilities?
-
- >Ideally
- >the apointment book would wake up the 95 at the right time and
- >call a .bat file to run myRemote which is a DOS compliant program
- >only.
- >
- >I have tried several vanilla DOS scheduling programs some work and
- >some don't. Those that work only do so if the 95 is awake at the
- >time of the event.
-
- One workable idea would be to plug in an AC adapter and leave the 95 on
- all the time. (The 95 won't do an auto-shutdown if it's running off the AC
- adapter.) Kludgy...
-
- >As far as I can see there is no built in feature to do this - has
- >anyone got any suggestions?
-
- Best idea: get a 48sx. I just finished an alarm-clock program on my 48sx.
- It currently recognizes each day of the week and also holidays. It took me
- just a day to write the core code. I've pretty well finished cleaning up
- and optimizing the code. If you're cost conscious, the 48s will do too.
- Each sample is about 600bytes on the 48. With even just 32K (and various
- overheads), you've still got room for about 45-50 commands. Good enough for
- me.
-
- >Thanks - Mike
-
- George
-
-