RE: Fw: IR Control of multiple xboxes all in one location - Node 0

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have a HomeVision unit ?

Frank McAlinden has a very nice Zoned IR system (called FirM) for both
receive and transmit, combined with homevision as the brains you can
effectively route the IR signals from one zone to another and/or change the
IR signal sent.

http://www.armaghelectrical.com.au/page7.html

I do (or have tested but yet to fully implement) this with our bathroom TV
and an XBOX running XBMC. When the HV unit receives a "TV A/V
button" signal from the bathroom zone it sends an IR signal to the
XBOX in node0 to turn it on, then any IR signals received for the TV
"cursor" or "OK" buttons from the bathroom zone are
translated into the equivalent "cursor" or "Select" IR
signal for the XBOX and are sent to the Node0 XBOX.

Using the same sort of logic I would think you could get HV to watch for a
specific IR button press from your bedroom zone that HV could interpret to
mean "now route all bedroom XBOX IR to the Downstairs XBOX". You
could then watch for the "TV OFF" IR signal and then set the
routing back to normal ready for normal viewing.

Marcus
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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
noel_pilot
Sent: 16 December 2008 23:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fw: [ukha_d] IR Control of multiple xboxes all in one location
- Node 0


Ok, thanks for the info, My last hope is that i don't actually need to
be able to use all of the available buttons on the xbox remote, well
in fact i need to get it to the point of only needing 50% of them.
Then change the keymaps on one to use the 50% of buttons not used by
the other xbox, so all the codes will go to both xboxes just half will
be ignored by each xbox.

web devices are of course an option but for sheer simplicity my
harmony remote just works!

Will post back how i get on in the new year.

Cheers

Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>,
Gareth Cook <g@...> wrote:
>
> Well, you could start buggering about with relays - using them to
route
> the physical wire - could be messy
>
> Cant see you doing what you want - theres only one set of IR. Even
with my
> Popcorn we cant do that. Which is why I have one over a HDMI matrix.
>
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> Technical Solution Architect, SWG Sales Europe
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> Thanks Gareth, but what about if I wanted to control both.
>
> Scenario is I'll have two xboxes both in Node 0, one primarily for the
> lounge, one for the bedroom. Normally zoned control would be fine.
>
> However....at times I'll be watching a film downstairs, want to pause
> it, go upstairs and press play to continue watching upstairs. Hence
> the need to control both xboxes but ideally with different sets of IR
> codes??!
>
> Cheers
>
> Noel
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>,
Gareth Cook <g@...> wrote:
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> > http://www.letsautomate.com/10719.cfm
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> > Multi-zone IR - cheaper in the US of course :-)
> >
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> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know a few of you have got multiple xboxes with xbmc in your
setups.
> > If you have them co-located in Node 0 or similar how do you
ensure
> > you control the one you mean to with your IR remote? The only
thought
> > I've had so far is to have completely different keymap.xml setups
for
> > each one but I'm not sure if that's doable or if I'm limited by a
> > certain number of IR commands it'll recognise.
> >
> > Can anyone advise??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Noel
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