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underquark
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What about something like the X10 PowerMid remote extender or search for a similar extender that works by receiving the signal in one room, transmitting the information along your power lines and then blasting our IR a the other end?
Have seen them but not personally used them. Happily using a similar product to send 100Mb/s data from my home out to garage via power lines ("HomePlug" devices). One wouldn't have thought the bandwidth for an IR signal is particularly high. |
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Vyrolan
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| underquark wrote: | What about something like the X10 PowerMid remote extender or search for a similar extender that works by receiving the signal in one room, transmitting the information along your power lines and then blasting our IR a the other end?
Have seen them but not personally used them. Happily using a similar product to send 100Mb/s data from my home out to garage via power lines ("HomePlug" devices). One wouldn't have thought the bandwidth for an IR signal is particularly high. |
Unless she already uses powerline-communicating devices, this seems like a poor approach. It would open up a whole new world of potential bugs and having to filter devices to prevent noise on the powerline. That's a lot of work when a single cat6 cable could run the IR signal hundreds of feet without any potential for loss. |
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vickyg2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Well powerline seems like overkill. I really think IR repeating is the way to go. All the signals ( Nec1, GI Cable ) are in the 37kHZ range. Nothing too challenging there.
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underquark
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| Mind you, you didn't say how many closed doors. If it's just the doors on a cabinet in the same room then, of course, it could be overkill. If the equipment is out-with decent radio reception or you are in a densely urban area with competing signals, however... |
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vickyg2003
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The components are just behind wooden cabinet doors. Not in another room.
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