I have a Philips DVD player and i want to build a simple IR transmitter circuit bord so that i can control the player with a PIC microcontroller [PIC16F84A] instead of the remote control, but i don't know how to get started. The DVD player is fairly new so i think that the remote control protocol is Philips RC-6 but i am not sure.
I guess first step would be to copy the signal of every button on the remote control so i would be able to program the PIC with the correct information, and it can deliver this to the IR transmitter when asked to do so. Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this? [not the programming part, but on how to get the signals from the remote control into the computer, so i have some data to work with]?
Any ideas ar welcome, also ideas on how to build the IR transmitter part.
I guess first step would be to copy the signal of every button on the remote control so i would be able to program the PIC with the correct information, and it can deliver this to the IR transmitter when asked to do so. Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this? [not the programming part, but on how to get the signals from the remote control into the computer, so i have some data to work with]?
Any ideas ar welcome, also ideas on how to build the IR transmitter part.