Hi All,
I have a Xantech IR distribution network in my house and I'd like to be able to send IR commands from my HA computer which is running HomeSeer. My HA computer is located in a server room fairly far away from my AV equipment rack so I'm thinking that I want to add my HA computer as an IR transmitter but I want to do it electrically instead of generating IR and sending it straight to an IR receiver just to convert it to electrical and inject it into the network. I guess what I'm looking for is an IR transceiver that will allow me to connect to the network with mini-jacks and use an existing IR receiver to learn the IR codes and an existing blaster to transmit the codes. I'm pretty sure I could get the transmit part to work by putting the transmitter in an enclosure with an IR receiver but that adds to the component count and complexity by having to convert to IR and right back to electrical just to get it to a connector block.
Hopefully this question makes sense to those who know more about IR distribution than I do.
Thanks for any help and guidance with this project.
Ken
I have a Xantech IR distribution network in my house and I'd like to be able to send IR commands from my HA computer which is running HomeSeer. My HA computer is located in a server room fairly far away from my AV equipment rack so I'm thinking that I want to add my HA computer as an IR transmitter but I want to do it electrically instead of generating IR and sending it straight to an IR receiver just to convert it to electrical and inject it into the network. I guess what I'm looking for is an IR transceiver that will allow me to connect to the network with mini-jacks and use an existing IR receiver to learn the IR codes and an existing blaster to transmit the codes. I'm pretty sure I could get the transmit part to work by putting the transmitter in an enclosure with an IR receiver but that adds to the component count and complexity by having to convert to IR and right back to electrical just to get it to a connector block.
Hopefully this question makes sense to those who know more about IR distribution than I do.
Thanks for any help and guidance with this project.
Ken