ArcCoyote
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Ok, so I found a little Torx bit and took a look inside my RW2 remote and receiver. Also did a little snooping in the drivers.
Interesting... In both the remote and the receiver, the radio modules are little daughterboards that have been soldered into place, clearly an "option" vs. the standard design.
The remote is nothing special, aside from discovering the "antenna" is just a spring hot-glued in place. No wonder the range isn't as good as the RW1. Ditto for the receiver, there's just a little spring under that plastic peak.
What really got me is that the receiver is a full IR device as well! In addition to the already discussed IR-blaster ports, there's an IR sensor at the front right next to the red LED.
This is definately an MCE device customized by ATI. It honestly looks like it started life as an IR remote/blaster based unit and had the RF capability added.
I dunno who OEMs the remote but the drivers are written using Jungo's WinDriver package...

I played with WinDriver when I was trying to get an old Toshiba Infinia LCD display and remote to work under 2k/XP. It's a godawful way to prototype drivers, let alone release them. Let's hope ATI writes something more native in the future.
Interesting... In both the remote and the receiver, the radio modules are little daughterboards that have been soldered into place, clearly an "option" vs. the standard design.
The remote is nothing special, aside from discovering the "antenna" is just a spring hot-glued in place. No wonder the range isn't as good as the RW1. Ditto for the receiver, there's just a little spring under that plastic peak.
What really got me is that the receiver is a full IR device as well! In addition to the already discussed IR-blaster ports, there's an IR sensor at the front right next to the red LED.
This is definately an MCE device customized by ATI. It honestly looks like it started life as an IR remote/blaster based unit and had the RF capability added.
I dunno who OEMs the remote but the drivers are written using Jungo's WinDriver package...

I played with WinDriver when I was trying to get an old Toshiba Infinia LCD display and remote to work under 2k/XP. It's a godawful way to prototype drivers, let alone release them. Let's hope ATI writes something more native in the future.