Hi Dave!

Your But Firsts seem to be more aggressive in distracting you than mine!

Yep especially lately I seem to get so easlily distracted.
Working at home right now with all this COVID-19 stuff going on
and its taking all I can do to stay focused on actual work! :)

That's nothing! You should see how easily distracted us retired folks
can be!!

My writing got ruined from high-speed note-taking in college; in
hindsight Gregg Shorthand would have been helpful but I don't know of
any tract in the sciences where shorthand is an option. That seems to
be an exclusive of the 'secretarial' tract.

Not that my handwriting was ever any good, but it was at least
legible back when I was in school. I wish we would have had
laptops and stuff back then it sure would have made things

Hmmm: extension cords to trip over, whirring of cooling fans, bopping of
the person sitting in front of you against the neck of your CRT.....<g>

easier! I tried to use one of those micr-casette recorders to
record notes but then when I tried to sit down in my dorm and
listen to them I would always seem to fall asleep! Fortunately, i
managed to make it through college "Thanky Lawdy"! :)

I vaguely recall a few people in class taping the lectures -- no, they
used cassettes, maybe micro-cassettes, not reel-to-reel!! They either
tried to sit in the front row or two in front of the podium or under a
speaker in the ceiling.

Actually "Intro to Home Ec"
would be good for college students: how to sew a button, how to clean
the dorm room and do laundry (why is everything pink?!)....

Don't get me started on Home Ec! I didn't care much for high
school, and don't remember much of anything I learned there, but
two of the few things I do remember and still use today;
Aggriculture/Shop and the week that all the guys had to take Home
Ec! They don't even teach these classes in a lot of schools now.
Its such a shame because these are critical life skills that
everyone needs to learn to be prepared for when they grow up and
leave home!

Yes. I don't know if my parents did it on purpose or just evolved but I
knew how to clean (well, that one more was what would be termed
'chore'), simple cooking -- that one evolved from my Mother would go
skiing and so us men (Dad and I) made something to eat. I could do
simple sewing: sew a button back on, patch a rip, etc.

Most do. Check www.lirc.org -- scroll down for the link to the
database ("Supported Remote Controls" header).
I used a receiver from a Hauppauge tuner -- can't find the specific
right now but is one of the two or three commonly used IR detectors in
a pretty plastic cover and connecting cable. The problem I had was the extraction/build/whatever didn't automatically create several files so while I had the first step of detection and decoding and the last step
of doing something with it Step 2 of linking the two was missing. (I
used to watch SouthPark and the episode about "Phase 1 - make
underpants, Phase 3 - Profit! -- What's 'Phase 2?" 'We dunno'" comes to mind!)

BTW, it appears connecting the IR detector to an RPi 3 and to an RPi4
are different. The GPIO pins are the same, maybe the firmware changed??
I can give links if you want them.

...Your comment I just need to find a good IR receiver to work with MagiQuest wand and the RPi', I'm going to say probably not too much of
a problem; maybe check out this 1 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZec247UpLM -- I didn't view but the
text onthe page indicates it is working with an Arduino.

Hey thats a good video! I looked at a few videos and websites a
while back but nothing with such a good "hands on" demonstration.
Definately gonna save this one!

While I think of it "be careful" with LIRC and the Raspberry 4 or maybe
Buster and so all the Raspberry Pi's. (My current project sort of
requires the RPi4 so "don't care" about 3, 2, etc.) Anyway, appears
something is broken between LIRC and Buster:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=269703

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=235256

"Oddly" on my Pi LIRC, or what I think is LIRC, works once I get into
MythTV: the remote functions work. Getting there is the problem: trying
to push a button on the remote at Desktop to load MythFrontEnd isn't
working. A test to simply write to a file (echo txt > test.txt) also
didn't work but then I'm not sure I was doing it right. Have a question
in to the Forum that has been helping.

My son was commenting on Magiquest last night. He really loved
it! I'd sure like to try to get a little "Mini-Adventure" set up
at home for him! :)

Good! I'll admit not be being into gaming other than Solitaire and
lately Mahjongg but if everyone was the same we'd be borrrrring!! As
for setting up the mini-adventure, go for it!! At least we might be
able to figure out the infrared part!


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Hi Dave!

Update information...

Most do. Check www.lirc.org -- scroll down for the link to the

<snip>

BTW, it appears connecting the IR detector to an RPi 3 and to an RPi4
are different. The GPIO pins are the same, maybe the firmware changed??
I can give links if you want them.

<snip>
<my quote from this morning>
BJM: While I think of it "be careful" with LIRC and the Raspberry 4 or maybe BJM: Buster and so all the Raspberry Pi's. (My current project sort of
BJM: requires the RPi4 so "don't care" about 3, 2, etc.) Anyway, appears
BJM: something is broken between LIRC and Buster:

OK, the good news is for me LIRC and IREXEC aren't broken but the
instructions I was following needed to be updated. The 'start" wasn't correct: it needed to talk to IREXEC but was trying to talk to with the remote's key assignment stuff.

The correction is: /etc/lirc/irexec.lircrc

begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_C
config = echo pswd | su -l pi -c /home/pi/Load_MythFE.sh
end


"KEY_C" is the yellow button on my remote. Can be any key as long as
not assigned in elsewhere.

pswd = password for that Raspberry Pi

pi = username for that Raspberry Pi

The sh script is what needs to be loaded to get what you want the button
to start up, in my case to load the Myth Front End. (I'm just soooo
clever with naming things!!)


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Hi Dave!

BTW, for infrared (IR) controlling appears the RPi 4 is missing LIRC -- not sure as fiddling with a project here and by the time I figured out what possibly to do ran out of time. I found https://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Setup-IR-Remote-Control-Using-LIRC -for-the-Ra/

Funny you should mention that. I went to a MagiQuest a couple of
years ago in Pigeon Forge TN and my kids loved it. Been thinking
about those wands ever since and wondering if I could rig up some
kind of IR sensor on the Pi and make my own little game at home.
I saw some information about it and I looked at a few different
IR sensors but put it on my list of things to do and never got
back to it.

Some day we should get around to comparing our Round ToIt Lists! <g>

I'm still working on my little IR project: ran into a bit of a snag
because the brand of TV (and so remote control) wasn't listed on the
LIRC site. Seiko was but I needed Seiki. Typo maybe? Nope. There is
a way to create one's own 'decoding chart' but sounds like a lot of
work; did finally one on-line and troubleshooted that; hope to test
today.

And we probably should move this thread as not really on-topic for Ham radio. I'll let it be your choice for where as I received and pretty
sure have selected all conferences. Electronics? Could rename one that hasn't been used in ages and piddle off the other SysOps!

Your probably right Electronics might be good!

Done! ...Did??!

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Some day we should get around to comparing our Round ToIt Lists! <g>

Lol my list seems to expand all the time. I need to write it down but I don't even remember half the stuff! :) Let see.. Got a model railroad I started on
a while back thats still sittign there. From there I started cleaning out a
old milk barn where my "shop" is. Got about half way done with that and had
to go work on some stuff in the house. Then all the little electronic
projects all over the place that I start. I seem to just rotate around from one to the other! :)

I'm still working on my little IR project: ran into a bit of a snag because the brand of TV (and so remote control) wasn't listed on the
LIRC site. Seiko was but I needed Seiki. Typo maybe? Nope. There is
a way to create one's own 'decoding chart' but sounds like a lot of
work; did finally one on-line and troubleshooted that; hope to test
today.

I hope the one you found will work!

Done! ...Did??!

Hah you did! I didn't even notice at first! :)

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Hi Dave!

You found me! (Moved this thread from Ham Radio.)

Some day we should get around to comparing our Round ToIt Lists! <g>

Lol my list seems to expand all the time. I need to write it down
but I don't even remember half the stuff! :) Let see.. Got a
model railroad I started on a while back thats still sittign
there. From there I started cleaning out a old milk barn where my
"shop" is. Got about half way done with that and had to go work
on some stuff in the house. Then all the little electronic
projects all over the place that I start. I seem to just rotate
around from one to the other! :)

My What I'm Going to Do Today is a mental list (um, in my head, though a
little crazy!) and depends somewhat on the weather: not going to be
doing yard work in the rain. Do have scratch paper/note cards and pens
in various palces in the house, not for writing down what to do but
sometimes at 'odd' times like brushing my teeth or drifting off to sleep
I'll think of a potential solution on a project. So have a little stash
of paper in the bathroom cabinet and in the bedside table.

I'm still working on my little IR project: ran into a bit of a snag because the brand of TV (and so remote control) wasn't listed on the
LIRC site. Seiko was but I needed Seiki. Typo maybe? Nope. There is
a way to create one's own 'decoding chart' but sounds like a lot of
work; did finally one on-line and troubleshooted that; hope to test
today.

I hope the one you found will work!

I finally found one, plugged it in, and -- nothing. Did a help post to
the MythTV Forum (because where is going to be used and they have used
remote controls instead of keyboards); got an impressive reply
(detailed) which helped but I ran into a snag near the beginning; should
get a response back this morning.

Done! ...Did??!

Hah you did! I didn't even notice at first! :)

Sneaky that way!

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My What I'm Going to Do Today is a mental list (um, in my head, though a little crazy!) and depends somewhat on the weather: not going to be
doing yard work in the rain.

Yep thats how I tend to get shifted from one project to another. Weather was too bad to work on one so I started another. Needed to do something before I could continue that, so I moved to another. Just keep going in an endless circle sometimes! :) My Vivance doesn't seem to be keepign up with me! :)

Do have scratch paper/note cards and pens
in various palces in the house, not for writing down what to do but sometimes at 'odd' times like brushing my teeth or drifting off to sleep I'll think of a potential solution on a project. So have a little stash of paper in the bathroom cabinet and in the bedside table.

I've tried that. Sad thing is I can't read my own handwriting! Pharmacist
told me my writing was worse than any doctors she's ever read! :) I do like spreadsheets so I try to keep a spreadsheet of stuff to do in google docs. I just tend to get sidetracked with trying to tweak the sheet formulas and such then! :)

I finally found one, plugged it in, and -- nothing. Did a help post to the MythTV Forum (because where is going to be used and they have used remote controls instead of keyboards); got an impressive reply
(detailed) which helped but I ran into a snag near the beginning; should get a response back this morning.

Thats awesome I hope ou are able to get that to work! I was looking at the MagiQuest wands a bit. It looks like they operate at 36 or 38 KHz. Found some stuff on openschemes.com that looks promising. Seem to be other folks who
have tinkered around with it in the past (I'm always a day late to the
party). I just need to find a good IR receiver that works at those
frequencies and with the Pi.

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Hi Dave!

My What I'm Going to Do Today is a mental list (um, in my head, though a little crazy!) and depends somewhat on the weather: not going to be
doing yard work in the rain.

Yep thats how I tend to get shifted from one project to another.
Weather was too bad to work on one so I started another. Needed
to do something before I could continue that, so I moved to
another. Just keep going in an endless circle sometimes! :) My
Vivance doesn't seem to be keepign up with me! :)

Your But Firsts seem to be more aggressive in distracting you than mine!

Do have scratch paper/note cards and pens
in various palces in the house, not for writing down what to do but sometimes at 'odd' times like brushing my teeth or drifting off to sleep I'll think of a potential solution on a project. So have a little stash of paper in the bathroom cabinet and in the bedside table.

I've tried that. Sad thing is I can't read my own handwriting!
Pharmacist told me my writing was worse than any doctors she's
ever read! :) I do like spreadsheets so I try to keep a
spreadsheet of stuff to do in google docs. I just tend to get
sidetracked with trying to tweak the sheet formulas and such
then! :)

My writing got ruined from high-speed note-taking in college; in
hindsight Gregg Shorthand would have been helpful but I don't know of
any tract in the sciences where shorthand is an option. That seems to
be an exclusive of the 'secretarial' tract. Actually "Intro to Home Ec"
would be good for college students: how to sew a button, how to clean
the dorm room and do laundry (why is everything pink?!)....

I finally found one, plugged it in, and -- nothing. Did a help post to the MythTV Forum (because where is going to be used and they have used remote controls instead of keyboards); got an impressive reply
(detailed) which helped but I ran into a snag near the beginning; should get a response back this morning.

Thats awesome I hope ou are able to get that to work! I was
looking at the MagiQuest wands a bit. It looks like they operate
at 36 or 38 KHz. Found some stuff on openschemes.com that looks
promising. Seem to be other folks who have tinkered around with
it in the past (I'm always a day late to the party). I just need
to find a good IR receiver that works at those frequencies and
with the Pi.

Most do. Check www.lirc.org -- scroll down for the link to the
database ("Supported Remote Controls" header).

I used a receiver from a Hauppauge tuner -- can't find the specific
right now but is one of the two or three commonly used IR detectors in
a pretty plastic cover and connecting cable. The problem I had was the extraction/build/whatever didn't automatically create several files so
while I had the first step of detection and decoding and the last step
of doing something with it Step 2 of linking the two was missing. (I
used to watch SouthPark and the episode about "Phase 1 - make
underpants, Phase 3 - Profit! -- What's 'Phase 2?" 'We dunno'" comes to
mind!)

BTW, it appears connecting the IR detector to an RPi 3 and to an RPi4
are different. The GPIO pins are the same, maybe the firmware changed??
I can give links if you want them.

...Your comment I just need to find a good IR receiver to work with
MagiQuest wand and the RPi', I'm going to say probably not too much of
a problem; maybe check out this 1 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZec247UpLM -- I didn't view but the
text onthe page indicates it is working with an Arduino.


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Your But Firsts seem to be more aggressive in distracting you than mine!

Yep especially lately I seem to get so easlily distracted. Working at home right now with all this COVID-19 stuff going on and its taking all I can do
to stay focused on actual work! :)

My writing got ruined from high-speed note-taking in college; in hindsight Gregg Shorthand would have been helpful but I don't know of
any tract in the sciences where shorthand is an option. That seems to

be an exclusive of the 'secretarial' tract.

Not that my handwriting was ever any good, but it was at least legible back when I was in school. I wish we would have had laptops and stuff back then it sure would have made things easier! I tried to use one of those micr-casette recorders to record notes but then when I tried to sit down in my dorm and listen to them I would always seem to fall asleep! Fortunately, i managed to make it through college "Thanky Lawdy"! :)

Actually "Intro to Home Ec"
would be good for college students: how to sew a button, how to clean
the dorm room and do laundry (why is everything pink?!)....

Don't get me started on Home Ec! I didn't care much for high school, and
don't remember much of anything I learned there, but two of the few things I
do remember and still use today; Aggriculture/Shop and the week that all the guys had to take Home Ec! They don't even teach these classes in a lot of schools now. Its such a shame because these are critical life skills that everyone needs to learn to be prepared for when they grow up and leave home!

Most do. Check www.lirc.org -- scroll down for the link to the
database ("Supported Remote Controls" header).
I used a receiver from a Hauppauge tuner -- can't find the specific
right now but is one of the two or three commonly used IR detectors in
a pretty plastic cover and connecting cable. The problem I had was the extraction/build/whatever didn't automatically create several files so while I had the first step of detection and decoding and the last step
of doing something with it Step 2 of linking the two was missing. (I
used to watch SouthPark and the episode about "Phase 1 - make
underpants, Phase 3 - Profit! -- What's 'Phase 2?" 'We dunno'" comes to mind!)

BTW, it appears connecting the IR detector to an RPi 3 and to an RPi4
are different. The GPIO pins are the same, maybe the firmware changed??
I can give links if you want them.

...Your comment I just need to find a good IR receiver to work with MagiQuest wand and the RPi', I'm going to say probably not too much of
a problem; maybe check out this 1 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZec247UpLM -- I didn't view but the text onthe page indicates it is working with an Arduino.

Hey thats a good video! I looked at a few videos and websites a while back
but nothing with such a good "hands on" demonstration. Definately gonna save this one!
My son was commenting on Magiquest last night. He really loved it! I'd sure like to try to get a little "Mini-Adventure" set up at home for him! :)

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