[ltp] lirc with TP770

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 22:45:37 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

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> I'm having some troubles with sending IR signals, though. When I send a 
> signal to my TV (8-10 feet away) with the command 'irsend send_once 
> MAGNAVOX Power', it only gets through about 1/10 of the time, even in a 
> dark room. Is there a very limited range on the rear IR port? I've also 
> tried facing the front/bottom IR port towards the TV with the same results. 
> Has anyone else run into this?

When I played around with the IR port of my 765L, I got a range of ~2
meters to control my Sony CD player. I think the IR port in notebooks
is only designed for short ranges.

Regards,
Tino