I have posted on my web site (www.the-gordons.net) two programs that Pronto users may find useful.

The first is an IR pattern generator program. It takes as input a file that describes an IR protocol (similar to that used in MakeHex) and the buttons that make up the command set. Using the protocol description it can produce any of the IR commands that the protocol has defined. It will produce them in several formats including Pronto HEX, Pronto compressed (RC5, RC6, NEC), Global Cache (including the iTach) and raw timing. It can send any pattern (IR Command) to a global Cache unit to be tested. It will build a complete text file of all the protocol's IR commands in any of several formats.

The second program is called the iPad Gateway. It is a PC program that will monitor a port (on the PC it is on) and show you in any one of three easy to understand formats (ASCII, HEX, COM) exactly what was received, i.e. what the Pronto sent. This includes all http headers and trailers and all non printable characters. To use it you just have it running on a PC (you define the ports it is to monitor in its control INI file). You then change in the Pronto the IP address of the device you were sending the data to, to now be the IP address of the PC running the gateway application. I use it when I need to figure out why a specific device I am sending TCP commands to is not working.

The programs are written in VB for win 7. But should work on other win systms. If they do not install let me know and I will look into it. They are supplied as full install packages and make no entries in the registry themselves. Feel free to ask questions and I will try to help you.

Thanks for that,

i downloaded the IR program, when i have some time,
but now i need some time to try it :) ......

I just updated it today (found some bugs). The basic engine is very similar to the one used in makehex which is very similar to the one in Genirdb which I think was the first instance of the species (transform a protocol description and a set of key codes to Pronto Hex).

I am planning to take my entire library of irp/device files and include them in the programs ini folder. I suspect that the majority of the ini files that are provided with makehex will also work (I do need to add the "function" command which generates all possible key codes to be compatible with the irp nomenclature in makehex).

IRGen will only build the codes whose code values have been explicitly stated and named (e.g. Power_on = 46")

Let me know if you have any issues. It was built using win 7 x64 and sometimes other MS OS's get "unhappy". There is a high probablility that all you need is the exe, the IRGen.ini file and the inifiles folder; but that will be very OS dependent.