Re: Super simple IR Repeater

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Dec 2006 11:12:24 -0800, sharedpp@xxxxxxxxx wrote in message
<1166555544.527395.93290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
>Bill Kearney skrev:
>> > I can not believe i can not find this!  :)
>>
>> Because it doesn't exist.  There needs to be power to drive the IR
>>receiver  on one end and power again to drive the emitter on the other.
>> There are any number of different makers of IR networking devices.
>> There are even some
>> that will piggyback their signals on to an existing coax cable.  None of
>> which are cheap, not hideously expensive, but not free either.
>
>Ah, ok then. Thanks for bearing over with me :)
>Now i see why i couldn't find it..
>
>Would it then be possible to solder an extending wire to my current
>setup ? (which is the IR reciever in a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 Tuner)

I understand now.  (Had you first specified what you _had_, we
coulda/woulda gotten there sooner ;-)

*If* your WinTV PVR USB has a plug-in IR receiver similar to the one on my
WinTV PVR PCI tuner, all you need is a simple 3.5mm female-to-male
extension such as what is used for (eg) mono headphones.

And if this is the case, what you want is not a "repeater", but rather an
"extension" like this:
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product_Id=3695238&JRSource=googlebase.datafeed.IST+18-315

available from a 100K places.

And yes, you could instead cut and solder, and insulate an extension wire.

HTH ... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
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