Re: IR extender w/ LIRC problem?

[Lance T. <la...@un...>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Karl Bongers wrote:
> Does the extender work fine with a TV or VCR?

Did some more testing.  The extender seems to work with my TV and video 
equipment... at first.  Then the equipment starts responding more slowly 
and erratically... often taking several key presses to get it to work.  
This isn't even necessarily when going through the extender... this 
happens if I simply have the receiver (the part that receives the signal 
and relays it to the IR receiver on the computer) plugged in.  I don't 
even have the transmitter plugged in.  

What it seems like to me is that the receiver pieces is flooding my serial 
ir receiver (and lirc) with garbage... so much garbage that lirc can't 
manage to keep up with decoding real signals.  But this seems to be 
happening on commercial a/v equipment too -- just not as badly.

> Is it just the lirc receiver that has a problem with it?

No, see above.

> Have you tried moving
> the thing that sends the signal to the TV away from the lirc receiver?


Just tried that.. seems to help a little.  Seems to help for the remote 
that came with the receiver but I can't get my home theater remote to work 
unless I point it directly at the IR receiver... pointing it at the 
extender results in nothing.


I expected this IR extender to "just work" and solve all of my problems!  
Are they all this much hassle or is this just a cheap-o one?