Premise Xantech and Premise

[chucklyons]

I've been casually integrating some Xantech components with Premise. Thanks to John's Sirius effort, I'm able to control the receiver from the pool, using either Premise, or via the Xantech keypad. One thing I was wondering about, and haven't figured out a way to enable it is this...Would it be possible to have minimal control over the digital player from a Xantech keypad?

Minimal, in my Premise->Xantech mind would be something along the lines of a keypress for Random Play; On/Off; and Next. Direct selection wouldnt be feasible, but just hitting Random, or next would be delightful....

I was thinking that some combination of Xantech, Globalcache and some scripting should be able to accomplish it....but then I begin to wonder if its me or the Nyquil...

Any thoughts?

 

[chucklyons]

So it seems this will work...I have yet to run real code thru it, but my napkin drawing and test build looks good.

There is a module called IRREMOTE, built by the great Premise master, Damon Deene. The Premise is that the IRREMOTE module can be used to capture incoming IR, compare that to the previously captured sample, then determine whether it meets a 'true' or 'false' condition. It is used by creating a custom IR keypad device, then assigning 'n' number of buttons to it. Each button then has an IR sample attached to it for a base representation.

Once that is accomplished, then you can go to the Home, add a keypad, add a button(s), then bind the buttons from the custom device to the keypad you have created under Home. Simply add a command macro to the button under home, and in my case, have it work on the target property for random, etc.

Seems fairly straightforward....I should have it running this weekend...but if you see some holes in my logic, feel free to poke....