A new project

[Doobrey]

Sounds like fun, especially with some of the 'One4All' remotes that you can hack their EPROM for new codes and functions :hammer:

Did you ever checkout InfraJoy/InfraRexx, an IR interface that connects to the joyport and is controllable by Arexx?
 It worked fine on my A1200, but it never learned the IR codes properly on my A4000  

[Doobrey]

motorollin wrote:
The One4All remotes can't create the codes I need, and it's cheaper to get a universal remote than to get a chip programmer to rewrite the One4All's ROM  ;-)

You don't need a chip programmer, just a homemade serial cable that connects to a header that's hidden inside the battery compartment
More info on the JP1 website

That project you linked to, was it the one CU Amiga gave away on a magazine cover

Yup that's the one, IIRC Eyetech used to sell them too. Although I guess it depends if you'd rather hog a joyport or parallel port as to what method you eventually end up using.
There's a post by Stedy on the Amiga Hacks Yahoo group with some  details of possible problems and fixes for the InfraJoy, I guess he's been too busy with the Amy'05 to test them out.

I stumbled across something else on aminet that might be of interest to you,
TURD ..The Ultimate Relay Driver, supports parallel port relay cards and also has ARexx support.