IR Distribution

[mdonovan]

I want to mount a receiver, satellite box, and HTPC in an out of sight spot and use an IR distribution kit to transmit the IR to the components. Right now I would need 2 IR receivers and three emitters (1 receiver for remote, one for the media center emitter, and outputs for receiver, sat box, and media center receiver), but I want some room to expand if needed. This is just for a single room, and not computer controllable, so I don't need anything fancy. I was looking through Smarthome's kits and I think they would work, but I thought I'd ask here what anyone is using for simple, cheap IR distribution.

Matt

 

[scriptx]

You will only need one IR Receiver if you want to receive IR from one place. It sounds like you have one location for everything so you will need 1 a connecting block in your cabinet. You can go a bit of distance between the block and the receiver, the longest distance I right now between the two is ~30 feet using shielded cable.

One other note, if you will have the receiver next to a plasma/lcd, get the plasma/lcd resistant receivers.

I want to mount a receiver, satellite box, and HTPC in an out of sight spot and use an IR distribution kit to transmit the IR to the components. Right now I would need 2 IR receivers and three emitters (1 receiver for remote, one for the media center emitter, and outputs for receiver, sat box, and media center receiver), but I want some room to expand if needed. This is just for a single room, and not computer controllable, so I don't need anything fancy. I was looking through Smarthome's kits and I think they would work, but I thought I'd ask here what anyone is using for simple, cheap IR distribution.

Matt