Comments on: Extended IR input

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:37:14 +0000

Thank you farthead. My A/V gear is in its own room at the back of the “TV room”. I have some purchased and some homebrew solutions to allow me to control the gear. Funny I do still find myself pointing the remote at the screen though ;)

By: farthead

farthead — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Far from a hack. Those can be built from a 555 timer and a IR receiver. as to why… Most people don’t think a rack of gear is “pretty” so closed doors are desirable. and most people that make real money have all that gear in the basement in the Video/Audio distribution system rack. But then they dont use IR extenders but real automation gear.

He is simply using a poor dudes IR distribution.. Xantech has created this stuff and sold it for decades…

By: Rosey

Rosey — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:53:00 +0000

I have the same issue Roteno has. I found his project to be very helpful and was able to complete the process even though I am not technical. My project was not as clean as Roteno’s but it still works. Verizon should take notice!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:46:15 +0000

Click things… Always clicking, clickety click click

(green links)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:55:59 +0000

New to hack a day, how do I see more than just the introduction?

By: mrasmus

mrasmus — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:12:26 +0000

It’s a nice quick project, useful to some people who may never have known what those ports were for.

And as far as the nitpicking: Settle down children, “their” is also acceptably used as a third person singular pronoun (replacement for his/her) in this situation, because “own” itself is an indefinite pronoun (it’s singular /or/ plural, to fit the requirements of construction). While “his” is the more common form of the idiom, it’s certainly not a sin, grammatically speaking, to substitute “their”.

By: jero32

jero32 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:29:38 +0000

Btw this is stil pretty cool. And maybe he didn’t want any mirrors hanging in his room or some other good reason. Just thought i’d put it out there.

By: craigjb

craigjb — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:28:27 +0000

@octel
“their” is grammatically incorrect since the antecedent is a singular noun. Therefore you pick one gender of the pronoun and stick with it. Or you can do the ugly “his/her”. But that’s just nitpicking.

By: octel

octel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:13:40 +0000

@andrew
nitpick alert:
females exist

By: jeffreeey

jeffreeey — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:48:41 +0000

im with jero, a mirror would have worked depending on what kind of angle(s) and where the box was. I mounted a STB on the back of a plasma and just used a mirror at a ~45% angle. Worked fantastic

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:29:31 +0000

Simple and Effective !

He’s right when he said “Poor Soldering Job”

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:48:17 +0000

nitpick alert:

it’s “to each HIS own”

By: jero32

jero32 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:26:45 +0000

Not sure if it would work very well…..but wouldnt a mirror also work?

By: sneakypoo

sneakypoo — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:24:03 +0000

He sure loves! his exclamation! marks! Just reading the text made me all excited! Wonderful!

By: xrazorwirex

xrazorwirex — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:04:53 +0000

I have a bunch of these IR inputs with 1/8″ stereo jack connectors on them lying around… they came with my media center computer for its remote / usb receiver setup. Making his own probably cost more than finding one and ordering it, but I agree that it’s taboo to tell someone they should have just bought something when they could make it, so kudos.

And his tv obviously faces him, it’s the devices that are oriented in such a manner that he can’t aim at the receiver the way it is.