Re: Powermid/Tivo Problems

["james_dunn67" <james.dunn@xxxxxxx>]

Tony,

A bit late I know - and you may already have this answer.  I've found
the Powermid to work OK, but they are _very_ sensitive to direction 
(both in the vertical and horizontal plane) when using a tivo 
controller.

I have a TV high up on the wall in the kitchen and Tivo in the living 
room; powermid between the two.  I have had to put a big lump of blue
tack under the back of the powermid to tilt it up by about 20 degrees 
and yet I still have to hold the remote fairly high up (sitting but 
with arm in air) for the tivo to work.  Once at "altitude"
it works 
fairly reliably.  More bluetack required....

If I don't do this, the red light lighs up like you say but no 
reliable signal is sent.

Cheers,

James 
--- In ukha_d@y..., "BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@r...>
wrote:
> I posted to the UKHA_D Tivo group earlier about my new Tivo and one
of the
> problems I've had is unreliable repeating of the Tivo IR with a 
pair of
> powermids.
> All other devices work quite happily with the powermids, and I 
belive pronto
> CCF files for the Tivo work fine, but pronto has a low WAF so I 
really need
> to be able to use a 'proper' remote for ther Tivo.
> 
> I had a quick scoot around tivocommunity.com reveals that ppl have
variously
> reported powermids to always work, to never work, to work if they 
press the
> key twice.
> It's frustrating to say the least to have so many different results
reported
> :-(
> 
> Anyway, I thought this was more properly the group to mention it 
rather than
> the TiVo spin-off as so many of you have experience of IR 
distribution
> issues and I'm sure all the UKHA tivo commmunity are here
anyway....
> 
> First of all, I'm wondering why this is an issue at all - if the 
pronto tivo
> commands work fine then the tivo peanut commands should work too.
> The LED on the powermid always lights up when I press a peanut 
button, so it
> is receiving the tivo signal okay....
> 
> I've got a couple of powermids dotted about the place and I don't 
really
> want to have to replace them just to get this working right.
> I don't mind installing a little low cost additional device so long
as it
> doesn't interfere with the current setup.
> I could bung in something wired if I really had to as I have 
a 'spare' CAT5
> cable that could carry the signals, but would prefer wireless...
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions, preferably on how to get the existing 
setup to
> be more reliable?
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> Tony.
> 
> 
>
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