I am looking to control multiple VCRs together. I seen some really expensive VCRs that had a wired remote control. The VCRs could be daisy chained so that the buttons on the remote worked all VCRs connected. My idea has to somehow make a row of buttons and then wire them up to each VCR. I don't really know if this would work or how hard it would be do to it. I decided to look stuff up on Google and found something interesting.
https://wiredremotecontrol.blogspot.com/
This guy took the IR sensor and solder in some 3.5mm jacks in serial. Then the jacks could be connected to each other, disabling the remote, and only using the commands sent from the VCR it was plugged into. I am thinking I might be able to actually figure out where to solder the stuff to get this method to work.
He mentioned IR emitters. Would having the remote of one set off an IR emitter to each other VCR work? The problem I see is that not all the VCRs are the same brand. After looking around, I found WinLIRC and computer-based remotes. I think this falls into the same problem, though, that not all the VCRs are the same, so the remote commands could be different.
What would be the easiest way to go about controlling all of them at once?
https://wiredremotecontrol.blogspot.com/
This guy took the IR sensor and solder in some 3.5mm jacks in serial. Then the jacks could be connected to each other, disabling the remote, and only using the commands sent from the VCR it was plugged into. I am thinking I might be able to actually figure out where to solder the stuff to get this method to work.
He mentioned IR emitters. Would having the remote of one set off an IR emitter to each other VCR work? The problem I see is that not all the VCRs are the same brand. After looking around, I found WinLIRC and computer-based remotes. I think this falls into the same problem, though, that not all the VCRs are the same, so the remote commands could be different.
What would be the easiest way to go about controlling all of them at once?