Re: IR control of two identical devices ?

["Simon Coates" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try

http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc/

Regards

Simon


----- Original Message -----
From: noughtomate <balraj_jassal@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 06 April 2006 15:43
Subject: [ukha_d] IR control of two identical devices ?


> Hi all,
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> This seems an obvious question, but how you would go about
> controlling two devices that use the same IR codes ?
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> 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.
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> I'm considring the second Sky box for dual tuner recording as well
> as for multiroom (when not recording).
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> Do you use some sort of two zone IR router which intelligently
> blinks to the correct Sky box ?
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> I haven't got the foggiest on how to implment this without some X10
> magic, which doesn't sound like a very elegant solution.
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> Any ideas ?
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> Cheers
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