I saw this link several years ago and I've been thinking of it ever since:
http://www.audioholics.com/productreviews/avhardware/WirelessRFRemoteControlExtender.php It's an IR-RF converter, but the weird thing about it is that it's housed in a battery-shaped object you install into the battery compartment of the IR remote. It contains a small battery of its own so you maintain the proper voltage. Here's the magic part: > Instead of actually converting the IR signals through an external box or > device that would have to strap to the front of the remote, this system > embeds a tiny RF transmitter into the battery compartment which > "listens" to the remote control's internal RF commands. All remote > controls send out low level RF commands when they are used. The Remote > Control Extender picks these up at close range, interprets them, and > transmits them to the base station for rebroadcast as IR commands. :-O One of those sounds-too-good-to-be-true things. Ordinarily I'd discard such claims but the review is from Audioholics - they are very well-respected and are definitely not a fly-by-night outfit. I have no use for such a device (yet!) but I just wanted to put it out there as a suggestion. Has anyone tried it? BTW it does come with an AAA version for use with the Squeezebox remote. It's not that expensive either. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26482 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
