If you spend your hols...

**Rebecca Loos** · 12 August 2005, 18:17

is this a poll?
I vote for all of the above!

**threaded** · 12 August 2005, 19:29

If it's the same box that Viasat use I can understand. Gosh is that a seriously poor quality controller. I end up watching Canal digital mainly cause it's just plain easier to change channel.

**xoggoth** · 13 August 2005, 10:57

It only takes a minute to reverse engineer a remote control surely. And a big hammer.

**WGAS** · 13 August 2005, 14:42

I thought only permies get holidays

**OwlHoot** · 13 August 2005, 19:03

Originally posted by zeitghost

reverse engineering a Sky remote control, does that make you a nerd or a geek?

Or just very sad?

Fifteen years ago I was working in Milton Keynes and staying in a house (in Conniburrow if anyone knows the town) where the owner had a sitting room the length of the house, a good thirty feet long, with the TV at one end and him slouched in a sofa at the other end, usually surrounded by a stack of tinnies. His remote control was a twenty foot long bamboo, which he wielded with amazing dexterity even when pissed as a newt! I had to move out before long though, as he was selling all the furniture to pay for booze.

**zeitghost** · 16 August 2005, 15:54

Well, by dint of much hacking, I've now got to the stage where I can send key zero to the Sky box.

I'd forgotten what a joy 8086 assembler is.

Thank heavens for the example files so considerately included with Tasm V2.

I knew my £10 Compaq Portable III would come in handy one day...

Following which it will be time to suss out if I can fit it all in a PIC...

**WageSlave** · 17 August 2005, 08:01

8086? Tasm? Wipes a tear from his eye as he fondly remembers all the outdated crap taught at university.

Tell me you're using Kalk32 and I'll cry like a baby.

**Churchill** · 17 August 2005, 08:05

Originally posted by WageSlave

8086? Tasm? Wipes a tear from his eye as he fondly remembers all the outdated crap taught at university.

Ah, yes, segment and offset...

Oh the fun to be had with the 80286 prefetch...

**zeitghost** · 17 August 2005, 08:09

Yup. TASM.

I could have used MASM, but the CD won't fit in the 3.5 inch floppy drive.

My success is limited, so far I have 3 keys that send 0, 3 keys that send 1, one key that sends 2, and 2 keys that send nothing at all.

The only key that corresponds with the desired result is 0.

Bummer.

Not only that, but I can't for the life of me see a logical pattern in the data stream... obviously a two pipe problem.

If you spend your hols...