[Unzap] any chance on updates

[Alexander Neumann]

Hi,

* Tso Lee Paih <tsoleepaih at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a few questions on the unzap developement and/or improvements.
> I bought one, built it up and had got quite some fun with it.
> The hardware design is just more powerful than only playing around
> turning off TVs.

Nice to hear that :)

> Are there any planned updates of the firmware, or has the development
> completely been stalled?
> Or do further developments/improvements remaining up to the user(s)?

I would appreciate contributed code, but unfortunately nobody has yet
sent me anything ;)

> Has anyone here improved range with reflectors or lenses, and in which
> way you did it?

There has been some reported success using lenses, AFAIR extracted from
old binoculars?

> I read somewhere that there was/is planned lirc integration, how about
> that?

No progress, because I do not really like LIRC.  One could implement a
usb protocol supported by LIRC, that should not be so hard.

> And how about the learning feature, any improvements?

Yes, in the last weeks I implemented a few functions to do datamining on
received IR codes, but I need some more time to port that to the unzap.

If anyone is interested, the rumpus software repository[1] contains the code
in the ir-analyzer/ directory.

Cheers,
- fd0