JP1 Remotes

[underquark]

For the 8820, I'd definitely recommend a cable (JP1.2) as it's unlikely that you will controll all your devices exactly to your liking from inbuilt codes alone.

I like the 8820 and now have three of them. I've built myself a cable and am now using vickyg2003's extender to provide double-key press, long-key press, fast macro cabability etc.

Personally I would add a board to my PC if I needed a serial AND a paralllel port (for JP1) but for pure JP1.2 I'd just get a USB/serial adapter so it could be used on more than one machine. I plan to get a cheap one from China (£4 inc. shipping to UK) for use with my tablet PC. If the adapter works well then I might get another one and cut it open and splice it to a small PCB with JP1.2 components on it to create a "proper" USB-to-JP1.2 cable. I'd be interested if anybody else has tried this as to which USB/serial adapters are easy to cut open.

[venik]

Thanks a lot. Could you tell me where you get these cables (the USB/Serial)?
I shall need to program the 8820 from a laptop (Lenovo t43p). I do not have any desktop machines at home.

[Capn Trips]

This is the guy from whom whom I got mine. Seems to work fine.
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