i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote

[darksun9210]

and the chances are 99% that it'll never happen but i thought i'd run it past you guys see what you think...

how about a box, that plugged into the mouse/joystick/parallel ports that connected wirelessly to another box that had 4 joystick and 2 mice ports on it?

joy1 and joy2 are auto switched with mouse1 and mouse2  depending on what is being operated. like the old robo shifters. joy3 and joy4 are dumped through to the parallel port a-la 4 player adapter stylee.

no need to run a bluetooth stack on the amiga, as far as it's concerned, it is directly connected. the sender/receivers deal with that. kinda like a wireless extension cord.

extensions to this idea include a serial port connection, so that another "master" box on another amiga could connect to it in a virtual null modem. Lotus2 over wireless . maybe a virtual parnet link. though going this far may require some config software on the amiga side to tell the two "master" boxes how to interact with each other, and how to assign the slave controller boxes.
maybe even have an audio connection and a small audio reciever that sits down the back of your TV... but if you have a wired video hookup, running audio aswell isn't going to be too bigger deal...

other idea is to have one receiver box per joystick/mouse, but that then starts cranking up the bill of materials....

basic idea being that the miggy is in another room, AV rack, tucked out the way somewhere, and you need your controllers in the living room

thoughts? comments? suggestions?  :-)

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keyboard port?

[darksun9210]

mini SBC?

and agreed on the "post your ideas here" section :-)

[darksun9210]

yeah i was thinking something along these lines to get it fleshed out and working, maybe grind it down to an embedded device or FPGA after proof of concept sort of thing.
but the slave box hopefully shouldn't be much more complex than an RS232 to bluetooth adapter.

[darksun9210]

i was thinking of the basic transmitter/recievers
but i was reminded of when a load of wireless mice where rolled out at work a couple of years ago. they were all set to one of four frequencies. so for every bank of five desks, one persons mouse would move another persons pointer. lead to hilarity and much "i told you so's" from the long suffering IT staff. wireless keyboards were banned due to data security issues.

anyway, with bluetooth, device A is assigned to host A, and all others ignore it if not associated. basicly trying to avoid interference/crosstalk etc. plus it allows other possibilities for communications..