I already own a Philips Pronto TSU9400 and the serial extender RFX9600. They are excellent and do exactly what I want.
The remote is controlling an IR device that is attached to the RFX9600 inside a cabinet. I need to control the exact same device from my home automation controller (HAI OmniPro). There is no PC in the cabinet.
Initially I thought I could connent the serial output of the Omni to a serial port on the RFX9600 and send it some kind of command to tell it to output the IR codes. I'm 95% sure I can't do this - the code to store and generate IR codes actually runs on the remote, and the RFX9600 is a pretty dumb device that simply gets the binary stream over the network, and modulates the IR output according to the data sent from the remote. Correct?
So now I'm wondering if I can use TCP/IP to send the same command into the RFX9600 with the remote codes baked inside. Perhaps I can generate this from the OmniPro? The key question is whether the Philips remote->RFX9600 protocol is published or has been reverse engineered by anyone. Thoughts?
The remote is controlling an IR device that is attached to the RFX9600 inside a cabinet. I need to control the exact same device from my home automation controller (HAI OmniPro). There is no PC in the cabinet.
Initially I thought I could connent the serial output of the Omni to a serial port on the RFX9600 and send it some kind of command to tell it to output the IR codes. I'm 95% sure I can't do this - the code to store and generate IR codes actually runs on the remote, and the RFX9600 is a pretty dumb device that simply gets the binary stream over the network, and modulates the IR output according to the data sent from the remote. Correct?
So now I'm wondering if I can use TCP/IP to send the same command into the RFX9600 with the remote codes baked inside. Perhaps I can generate this from the OmniPro? The key question is whether the Philips remote->RFX9600 protocol is published or has been reverse engineered by anyone. Thoughts?
