Re: Infra Red over TCP/IP

["Paul" <webster1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could do things the fun way and built your own device using a rabbit
microcontroller (http://www.rabbitsemi.com) or simmilar. The rabbit core
modules have ethernet built right on them. All you'd need is an IR reciever
module and some programming skills.

Just a suggestion
-Paul

"Denys Williams" <denys_williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:509be57b.0503210803.3a07825f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.