I have an IPTV digital TV box (Entone Kamai 500) that goes to sleep every 1hr 15mins, right in the middle of watching a movie! It's super duper annoying, and in order to conserve bandwidth, the provider says they won't change the idle timer (not even to only kick out at the end of the current program or movie! wow).
So, I've done some testing, and hitting one of the buttons on the remote produces nothing on the display, but does reset the timer.
What I would like to do is build a simple circuit that could capture/record the I.R. signal from a button press, then spit out that button press I.R. signal every 60 mins.
I've seen the USB IR Toy v2 and because it's programmable I assume I should be able to make it capture the I.R. signal then spit it out every 60 mins! Just provide it with 5v power (the IPTV box has an unused USB port already!) and it'll sit there and chirp away, hopefully!
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/USB_IR_Toy_v2I've ordered it for $23 shipped, smokin deal.
Do you think I'll be able to make it do what I need? Once I receive it I'll do some experimenting and can post up any information that's needed (to help me program it!

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Thank you for any information you can provide.
-Jamie M.