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| Mike A:
--- Quote from: Dal1980 on February 12, 2017, 06:05:06 pm ---Thanks guys, BadMouth - thanks for the google link. I have a problem with the setup and you suggest a completely new setup. wd! :laugh2: --- End quote --- Maybe insulting people who are trying to help you is not the best way to go about things. |
| Dal1980:
Apologies if any offence was caused. Just frustrating to get lumbered with bad kit and be told that there isn't any other to use it hence the title of my post. Secondly, i would have thought that a google link without an explanation is kind of bad manners hence my sarcasm. It was still tongue in cheek but cheek non-the-less 🤐 so I apologies. Pbj life would continue if a repeater worked. Like i say, its problems with first locating IR receiver as most boxes hide this and secondly the concept of gluing something to the front of a non-smooth surface is problematic and just plain primitive. If people on here had work around like that then they wouldn't be producing the superior standards i see in most posts. In fear of getting into a debate over attitude vs problem solving im going to try and find a solution with a different line of question. Has anyone managed to swap out their Sky equipment for their own digibox and still continue to use Sky? Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Mike A on February 13, 2017, 08:05:26 am --- --- Quote from: Dal1980 on February 12, 2017, 06:05:06 pm ---Thanks guys, BadMouth - thanks for the google link. I have a problem with the setup and you suggest a completely new setup. wd! :laugh2: --- End quote --- Maybe insulting people who are trying to help you is not the best way to go about things. --- End quote --- No, I was being an unhelpful ass. LOL. Personally I like radio remotes, but hate Bluetooth ones. The fireTV stick and Roku remotes seem to lag and then queue multiple presses. My Tivo remotes are awesome. They aren't on Wifi, but do use 2.4Ghz IIRC. Before all these newfangled Bluetooth devices came out, I had all my devices in the living room and the audio/video distributed to my bedroom and basement. Everything was controlled by a learning Radio to IR remote (one for each room). Each room had it's own remote and everything worked great. I was able to avoid using those little stick on IR emitters by putting the main signal receiver (which contained around 10 big emitters) on an end table instead of in the media cabinet. ....and then all these Bluetooth devices came out. So I feel your pain, but do not have a solution for you. I can control most of the devices through an app on my phone, but it's a different app for each device. |
| Dal1980:
That helps a lot BadMouth thank you 😊, you've already lifted my spirit telling me that you understand. I thought it was just me with this problem. I did figure out how to use local web api to call the distro box so i could change the input select. This worked out quite nice and i actually host that on a live external domain. http://hdmi.zombiesbyte.com (i can post this publicly since it uses internal IPS so doesn't actually do anything when accessed externally from my home network). Ill have another scout about tonight but may have more Questions here so ill come back to this thread. Bluetooth seems like a nice solution but is there such a thing as a Bluetooth repeater i wonder. Im on my mobile right now so not in a position to search but ill have a look tonight. Many thanks Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk |
| dkersten:
I scrapped my IR repeaters in favor of a Harmony Elite with Harmony Hub. Not cheap, but well worth it. The blasters are massive and have insane range. I have mine mounted at the bottom of the rack facing away from all the equipment, and it still bounces off various walls and triggers even the devices at the top of the rack that are recessed. On top of this I can control bluetooth devices (firetv box and the new Shield). And then I added the Harmony Hub extender and connected it to my Vera Plus and I can control anything through that with the Harmony remote as well. So now I have control over IR, IP, bluetooth, zwave, zigbee, insteon, Hue, and pretty much anything else you can think of. In the case of the shield, some apps didn't like the standard bluetooth Android TV commands that come from Logitech, so I was able to add a bluetooth keyboard as a device and switch some commands to that (it is paired to the devices in question as both a remote and a keyboard), and now I can send keyboard commands to it as if I had a bluetooth keyboard attached. So even if it isn't directly supported, you may be able to rig it up to work. I like that I can turn on my projector (in the room with IR), turn on and work all my IR devices in another room with no line of sight, control bluetooth devices, and adjust my lights, all with one remote and without having to use a tablet or smartphone as the remote. If that is out of the budget or you just don't want to go that way (or even with some tinkering you can't get it to control your device properly), try a different IR blaster (might have to just try a whole different repeater). My Niles IR repeaters was old but awesome on the equipment side, but the IR receiver eye only had a 12 foot range (I was 13 feet away, so I had to lean forward to make it work). The cheap repeater I bought on Amazon had excellent receiver reception (about 35 feet), but the blasters have about a 2 inch range at best, so for some devices this was a pain finding the exact spot on the eye to make it work, and I even had to double up some blasters to make it work. Really good IR repeating systems will allow you to attenuate the output and use different blasters to tune it in to work. One thing for sure though, it isn't just "plug and play", sometimes devices are a pain in the butt to get to work right. Even after $500 dropped on a Logitech remote I had to spend 3 hours getting the hybrid remote/keyboard bluetooth setup to work right with the Shield. Huge pain in the arse, but in the end it was worth it for me. |
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