Re: Infra Red over TCP/IP

["brigman" <denys_williams@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice try Dan, but if you look a bit further you'll see they (Barix) are
just banging on about the technology that is integrated into the
Exstreamer Digital product (among others) and not actually marketing a
stand alone IR over IP solution. Perhaps there is something under
development, but I need a solution a little sooner.

Thanks anyway,

Denys


Dan wrote:
> 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.