RE: IR distribution control when recording ?

[Nigel Champion <nigel_champion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 2 sky boxes..only one available to control
directly....cheating I know :)

Another way a friend of mine uses is to hide the Sky
remote..force em to use the Tivo remote!! Again low
tech...but it works :)

Nigel


--- "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Just a thought, it's very low tech so it might work
> ;)
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: noughtomate [mailto:balraj_jassal@xxxxxxx]
> 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.
>
> If it's this risky in one room, how do you guys cope
> with multiroom ?
>
> 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.
>
> 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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