Volume control hack

[MrToasty]

I was watching TechTV the other night and they demonstrated a hack to control a PCs volume with external hardware.  If you have a Sound Blaster Live, you can essentially wire two buttons directly to a header on the board for volume up and down.  Here's the link:

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3422185,00.html

Not sure if this has been covered here already, but I haven't come across it before.  

[jerryjanis]

Wow, that could really be useful.

[Dak-ak]

soundblaster live value cards lack the headers, but they have the spot for the headers on the pcb (cheap ---daisies---, its probably close to .0005 cent per card).  anyways, i was able to set my live value card up for this without too much trouble (just soldered a header onto it)

[canardo]

cheers for the info shame in my cabinet I got a built in sound card might have to put the live from this machine in there now hehe

[Beley]

What that article failed to mention is that if you hit both of the buttons at the same time it will mute/unmute the audio

[SirPoonga]

Hmmm, digital volume control.

Ok now, were can I get digital receiver volume controls?  Like on my denon, turn knob right to raise, turn knob left to lower.  (push knob to mute would be cool)

[Howard_Casto]

Something they also mentioned is that this hack comes from a book about the sound blaster live.  It explains the header pins and how to hook various outputs/inputs to non sb compatable equiptment.  This would be very nice for people with the fancy cases with audio jacks in the front.

[FunkyGibber]

This is exactly what I'm after but unfortunately the link doesn't work any more. Does anyone have a link to this article? I've searched the web but I'm not getting anything.

Cheers.

[Ginsu Victim]

Cabvol will do the same thing, no hacking required
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69901.0