Registered: May 2000
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
Posts: 77

Hey guys, I just downloaded the trial version of the software you can run on your PC to create OmniRemote buttons and screens. It's called ORDesktop and you can get it here: http://www.ordesktop.com/index.htm. Man does this software make putting cool interfaces together easy! Not only that, but it imports button commands from the Pronto programmable remote, which is cool because there are TONS of files out there for it. Check out this link on Remote Central for instance: http://www.remotecentral.com/files/main.htm!

Anyway, This has shed a new light on the OmniRemote springboard for me and I think I will actually break down and buy it now (I've tried internal IR and it's not too hot). Just thought I'd share.

Dave

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location:
Posts: 2

Has ANYONE out there bought the OmniRemote module? I'm really curious. Seems like a great idea in theory....

How's the distance on the IR? The angle necessary? What about battery life?

Thanks. I want to buy one, hell, they're only $60, but I need some user feedback, first.

Best,
James.

Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 307

You might want to check out Remote Central. If you go there and click on the PDA chat forum, there's lots of discussions from owners of the visor/omniremote SB. I've seen discussions there regarding your exact questions.

I have the registered software (not the springboard), and love it...

-Larry

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Greenwood, IN
Posts: 125

I have a colleague at my college who teaches choir/piano/composition in the Fine Arts division who has a Visor with an OmniRemote. He uses it all the time to control the various recording and playback devices he has in his office. Plus, we just opened a new classroom building with lots of multimedia classrooms and he can use the OmniRemote to control those too, rather than hunt around for the various remote controls for VCR, document camera, computer projector, etc. (Those remotes have a tendency to walk off with the professor who was in the class prior to you...)

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Has ANYONE out there bought the OmniRemote module? I'm really curious. Seems like a great idea in theory....

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