![]() Bob on Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Your Devboards Easily.helge on High-Voltage Fun With An Inexpensive Power Supply.Dan on 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Simple Window Closer Relies On Gravity.Karl Lambley on High-Voltage Fun With An Inexpensive Power Supply.Ricardo on Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Your Devboards Easily.H Hack on Building A Hydraulic Loader For A Lawn Tractor.Namespace collision error 0xdeadbeef on Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters.Share Your Projects: KiCad Automations And Pretty Renders 22 Comments Posted in Arduino Hacks, home entertainment hacks, News Tagged arduino, Dreambox, home entertainment, rfid, tv In the meantime, you can check out his code here. ![]() The device is in its infancy at the moment, and while hasn’t published a ton of details about the actual RFID devices he is using to control the system, he says that more details and improvements are forthcoming. The Ethernet shield allows the Arduino to talk to his Dreambox over a telnet connection, while the RFID reader does what you would expect. An Arduino runs the show, and is connected to both an Ethernet shield and a breakout board fitted with an ID-20 RFID reader module. His RFID remote consists of three major components aside from the media player itself. Much like some of the other hacks we’ve seen this week, he has devised a way for his little ones (1 and 2 years old) to control his Dreambox Media Player using RFID, which seems to be the go-to technology for this sort of thing. People are always looking for ways to make their home entertainment systems accessible to their kids, and is no exception. While young children have the tiny hands and fingers that most hackers/tinkerers wish they possessed from time to time, their fine motor skills aren’t always up to par when it comes to operating complicated electronics. Posted in home entertainment hacks Tagged Dreambox, LG, rs-232, serial Kid-friendly RFID Media Center Playlist Control If you want to find out what else you can do with this type of serial connection read about this hack which used a script to try every possible command combination. From there he got to work on a Python script which works as the backend for a web-based control interface. After a bit of tweaking he was able to lock in reliable communications which he made persistent by writing his own startup script. His initial tests resulted in no response, but a tweak to the com port settings of the box got his first command to shut off the television. He searched around the Internet and discovered that it should be possible to connect the two using a null modem cable. is using a Dreambox DM800 satellite receiver which also has a serial port an he can telnet into it. The image above is the back of another LG television (it came from a forum post about controlling the TV with a PC). It pushes commands to his LG 47LH50 TV which has an RS-232 port. He’s using his satellite receiver to provide the Internet connection. Now the one-IR-remote-to-rule-them hacks have been gaining popularity lately so we assumed that’s how he was doing it. It doesn’t matter if your community is on TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Discord, or any other far-flung corner of the internet – you’re invited to join our family of ever-growing DreamHack creators! Or, if you’re looking for a family gaming event close to you, there’s plenty of activities at DreamHack for the kids (both young, and young at heart!) to take part in.Wrote in to tell us about his hack to control the television with a smartphone. If you’re an Australian content creator, we’d love to have you – in 2023, DreamHack Melbourne hosted more than 200 Aussie & New Zealander content creators, and this year, we’re planning for even more. Whether you’re looking for the latest new releases in gaming at the expo, or want to watch some of the best pros around play live on stage, be prepared for a weekend of fun. With artists from across the country, cosplay, gaming, tournaments, a BYOC LAN and more, there’s a reason for every community to get together this April. If you’ve ever been to a gaming convention in Australia, you’ll find yourself at home at DreamHack Australia 2024.
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