Re: Infra Red over TCP/IP

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

I don't think you will find anything that will do exactly what you want
(i.e. capture & encapsulation) but you can accomplish this with a PC (or
even 802.11 equipped PDA) and a little bit of programming using the Global
Caché GC-100 on the DVD end.

     http://www.globalcache.com/products/gc-models.html

I haven't kept up with this lately but I think NetRemote software can send
the strings needed by the GC-100.

denys_williams@xxxxxxxxx (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.