Powermid + Tall house.

["Young, Jeff" <Jeff.Young@xxxxxxx>]

So I've installed my tivo in the attic.  I've moved my powermid RF
receiver/IR emitter into the attic to control the tivo.  I am very happy
with my new easytouch 35 remote but it appears that the range is slighly
less than the older marmitek 8-in-1 RF/IR remotes.

So here's the idea.  I buy a powermid IR extender (TX+RX) and install it
half way up the house (actually in my av cupboard).  I position them
front-to-front so the IR gets re-transmitted (and boosted) thus enabling it
to reach the attic.

Something like this

(ET35)---RF---->(PM receiver - av cupboard)----IR----->(PM
transmitter - av
cupboard)-----RF---->(PM receiver - attic)----IR---->Tivo.

The question is this.  What is to stop the PM transmitter transmitting BACK
to the PM recevier in the av cupboard ( as well so to the attic recevier )
and creating some sort of endless loop that will never stop ?  I'm
basically
trying to use the powermid kit as an RF booster.

Is this a bad idea ? Am I Bananas ? Can anyone suggest another direction ?

Jeff






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