Re: Infra Red over TCP/IP

[Dan <haguru@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about this Barix product?
http://www.barix.com/index_en.php?http://www.barix.com/en/products/ir_ethernet_gateway.php

the datasheet
(http://www.barix.com/en/datasheets/barix_ir_gateway_v04en.pdf) seems to
indicate it would do what you want.

Not sure if you can buy it yet, but it does look interestng


dan

Denys Williams wrote:
> I appreciate that this isn't strictly home automation, but the
> concepts are the same if you have a big enough house.
>
> I am hoping to control a device (e.g. an ordinary DVD player) using
> the supplied remote control over a distance of 100's of miles. In
> order to do this I am hoping to acquire an IR receiver that can
> encapsulate the output from the supplied remote and encapsulate it in
> a datagram (TCP/IP) and throw it down an ethernet link such that it
> can be reassembled by a similarly capable IR transmitter an arbitrary
> distance away (over a low latency 34Mbps link) and control the device
> as if the remote was within the typical operating distance of the
> device/remote pair. In fact the solution must have an ethernet port
> and communicate via a TCP/IP link.
>
> (I have a couple of Barix Exstreamer digital's, but they only relay IR
> received from the supplied Barix IR remote control)
>
> Can anyone recommend a device-pair/solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Denys Williams
>
> If you think of a device/remote pair for which this will never work
> then that isn't the device I want to control, but you are really quite
> clever.