Infra Red Distribution

[APRIL]

One of my cats can find cylindrical objects (Pens, chapsticks, lipsticks, x-acto knives) no matter where they are hidden.

He climbs up on counters and digs through bags, purses, under papers, whatever to find them.

If I could somehow harness that talent.....

Penis' are cylindrical right?

 

[smileynev]

run it serial then use a ir blaster with a serial port on it. i say this because if you dick around with a remote in one room, you have no way of knowing if the signal ever got sent. you need real feedback for this kind of system to work.

you're trying to do a control system on the cheap and its not going to work out well. it will only half work and be more of a pain than a help. either spend the money to do it right or don't do it.

You lost me. I want to be able to control and watch whats on my Tivo a floor below me. I have the Tivo remote in my hand. I want to aim it at near the TV to change the channel and watch recorded shows. I need something to capture the signal, send it through the walls, decode it and tell the tivo what to do.

Is there such a thing as serial cabling for inside the walls? I will still need an IR receiver upstairs, right?

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Penis' are cylindrical right?

Probably too thick, he'd only be good for asian penises.

 

[APRIL]

You lost me. I want to be able to control and watch whats on my Tivo a floor below me. I have the Tivo remote in my hand. I want to aim it at near the TV to change the channel and watch recorded shows. I need something to capture the signal, send it through the walls, decode it and tell the tivo what to do.

Is there such a thing as serial cabling for inside the walls? I will still need an IR receiver upstairs, right?

For cheap radioshack sells pyramid shaped IR transmitters you just hook into the Tivo and into the tv of your choice. Thats all there is to it.

 

[APRIL]

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, "Does this taste funny to you?"




Ya ok... anyways... back on topic.

 

[my little brony]

You lost me. I want to be able to control and watch whats on my Tivo a floor below me. I have the Tivo remote in my hand. I want to aim it at near the TV to change the channel and watch recorded shows.

You could always try putting the TiVo upstairs right next to the TV you want to watch the recorded shows on.


But then, that would make far too much sense.

 

[smileynev]

You could always try putting the TiVo upstairs right next to the TV you want to watch the recorded shows on.


But then, that would make far too much sense.

wtf dude. Keep your logic out of my thread.

Scenario: Wife and I are sitting on the couch downstairs watching our latest episode of Buffy. Episode ends explosively and we want to watch another, but we're getting tired and want to lay down in bed. So we go upstairs but, alas, there is no buffy up there.

 

[simple]

wtf dude. Keep your logic out of my thread.

Scenario: Wife and I are sitting on the couch downstairs watching our latest episode of Buffy. Episode ends explosively and we want to watch another, but we're getting tired and want to lay down in bed. So we go upstairs but, alas, there is no buffy up there.

why the fuck are you watching buffy

 

[Syrup Beaver]

why the fuck are you watching buffy

Ever hopeful that Dawn gets plastered by a bus.

 

[smileynev]

why the fuck are you watching buffy

Because she's a necrophiliac...

 

[simple]

VAULT

 

[theacoustician]

wtf dude. Keep your logic out of my thread.

Scenario: Wife and I are sitting on the couch downstairs watching our latest episode of Buffy. Episode ends explosively and we want to watch another, but we're getting tired and want to lay down in bed. So we go upstairs but, alas, there is no buffy up there.

Get a couple of the latest TiVos. They allow to to transfer content from one TiVo to another over your home network.

 

[my little brony]

wtf dude. Keep your logic out of my thread.

Scenario: Wife and I are sitting on the couch downstairs watching our latest episode of Buffy. Episode ends explosively and we want to watch another, but we're getting tired and want to lay down in bed. So we go upstairs but, alas, there is no buffy up there.

so you have that one TiVo hooked up to both TVs? I didn't know they could do that

maybe instead of having to buy all this extra crap, buy another tivo?

 

[smileynev]

Get a couple of the latest TiVos. They allow to to transfer content from one TiVo to another over your home network.

directivo doesn't have the home media option because they are assholes who hate freedom and the American way of life. If they did I would have one for the bedroom too in a heartbeat.

 

[theacoustician]

directivo doesn't have the home media option because they are assholes who hate freedom and the American way of life. If they did I would have one for the bedroom too in a heartbeat.

I believe there is a hack to get around that.

 

[smileynev]

I believe there is a hack to get around that.

Well, yes, but at the moment I neither have time, energy, patience, or daring to attempt such a thing.

 

[CletusJones]

mirrors. lots of mirrors.

 

[theacoustician]

Well, yes, but at the moment I neither have time, energy, patience, or daring to attempt such a thing.

Why not build a HTPC and centralize your recoding, kind of like an ingestion room in a broadcast facility. You could run the signal out of the HTPC over whatever signal you want and split it out to every TV. The HTPC input on each TV could be "input 2" or whatever. You could control the HTPC with a tablet PC or even a PocketPC. Just run upstairs, switch the video input to the HTPC line, and dial up whatever using a PocketPC over 802.11.

At least you'd be getting closer to a good solution rather than trying to ghetto up your house with some frankenstein rig.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

just leave the remote where it can see the tivo and try to poke it with a really really long stick from your bed

 

[smileynev]

mirrors. lots of mirrors.

hmmmm, two windows + mirrors could work.