Re: IR control of two identical devices ?

["darren_karp2001" <darren.karp@xxxxxxxxx>]

As you know the MS IR receiver has two outputs and comes with two IR
emitters. Stick each one over the eye of your STB and configure MCE
accordingly. As long as the emitters are placed correctly they will
be controlled correctly and independant of each other.

Obviously aiming and firing your Sky remote will control both boxes
at the same time!

If you want multiroom and will be using one of your STB's to feed
the TV link module via RF2 then you don't have to worry as all the
channel changes, etc. are handled by the coax plugged into RF2.

Darren
>
> Hi all,
>
> This seems an obvious question, but how you would go about
> controlling two devices that use the same IR codes ?
>
>
> I have a Media Center PC with dual tuner card and a single Sky
box.
> I'm aware if I add a second Sky box, I can control the two via
Media
> Center but not directly using standard Infra Red - Sending a
single
> IR command would be received by both of the Sky boxes.
>
> I'm considring the second Sky box for dual tuner recording as well
> as for multiroom (when not recording).
>
> Do you use some sort of two zone IR router which intelligently
> blinks to the correct Sky box ?
>
> I haven't got the foggiest on how to implment this without some
X10
> magic, which doesn't sound like a very elegant solution.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Cheers
>