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Node TCP Client | November 22, 2011 at 00:38

A few weeks ago I bought an [iTach IP2IR](http://www.globalcache.com/products/itach/ip2irspecs/) from a company called Global Caché. Combined with an iPhone app called iRule it lets me use my iPhone to control my home theater equipment. This has been an awesome experience. No more fighting over remotes since my wife has the same app on her phone, and when our daughter wakes up on the weekends we can turn the TV on in the living room without leaving the bed and thus buy our selfs a couple of minutes more snooze time. The thing that makes Global Caché more awesome than most hardware companies is that they publish their API specs on their web site, and it's a really nice, simple ASCII based TCP API. The API is really what made me choose this product over similar options. Since the API work

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