Re: IR distribution control when recording ?

["noughtomate" <balraj_jassal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank David.

I wrote my email for the group as a whole - so I mentioned Tivo and
HD recorders.

But I have an XP Media Center which unfortunatly does ont have a
recording light.

Any other ideas out there ?

Does the Sky emit a specific signal to any of the scarts / RF when
recording ?


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@...>
wrote:
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> I've not done this but a simple solution with Tivo may be just
> to use the Recording LED on the front to drive a transistor to
> disable the IR LED that is controlling Sky or the digibox.
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> Just a thought, it's very low tech so it might work ;)
>
> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: noughtomate [mailto:balraj_jassal@...]
> Sent: 04 April 2006 11:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] IR distribution control when recording ?
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> I'm aware many of you are Sky+ owners, so this may not pose a
> problem.
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> But the rest of you may use Tivo, HD recording or a Media Center
PC
> to do your recording. This would use your Sky / other digibox as a
> pass-thru', allowing two points of control - either the Media box
or
> Sky directly. By viewing from the Sky box in this case can be
risk,
> because the viewer can accidently change channels without knowing
a
> recording is in progress.
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> If it's this risky in one room, how do you guys cope with
multiroom ?
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> I'm planning ahead for AV and IR distrbution and wanted you find
out
> how you managed to limit IR control to a Digibox which is
recording
> at that time.
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> Are there any special tricks you guys have implemented ?
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> In summary I want to stop channel change on my digibox
(irrespective
> of the IR source) when a recording is in progress.
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> Any advive would be much appreciated.
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