On 18 Aug, 21:55, PCPaul wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:31:41 -0700, jim wrote:
On 18 Aug, 16:15, PCPaul wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:50:31 -0700, jim wrote:
On 17 Aug, 20:35, PCPaul wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:06:36 -0700, Owain wrote:
On 16 Aug, 22:31, jim wrote:
Use something IR-transparent for the cupboard door.
mmm well cupboard door exists and is oak! what sorts of materials
are IR transparent anyhow??

Not oak!

Some types of smokey glass, mesh, open-weave fabric, etc.

My video/remote extender has a repeater on the end of a longish wire
which you put near the receiver on the HDD recorder. It's just a
1/2" cube of red plastic. The actual signals are sent by radio.

aha - that's the kind of thing I had in mind - what is it please?
where from etc?

It was from Tesco IIRC - says 'Philex 27988HSQ' on it but I think it
was something more Tesco-y on the original box.

It was definitely a video extender not just a remote extender. It sends
the video from the Tx to the Rx using 2.4GHz wireless (which does
suffer from interference when the laptop gets between them) and the
remote signals get sent back on a different channel and blasted through
the extension to the freeview box.

We use it to control the downstairs freeview box from the bedroom TV.

I think it was only £25ish.

Rummages here you go. It was an earlier version of this, I think:

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.100-5494.aspx

As somebody already said, the only thing to watch for is Virgin boxes
that use IrDA instead of the usual infra red system - they won't work
with it. Anything you can control with a One-For-All type remote will
be fine.

ah I'm not really bothered about video tx just relaying IR command into
the closed cupboard from outside - was imagining a wire from a rx to a
tx inside the cupboard, and a power supply - nothing too fancy or
involving different rooms at the mo....

cheers
JimK

Well you don't *have* to use the video bit...

that's true -I'll have a gander thanks

jim