Re: Tivo Series 2 remote troubles

[Kendrick V. <ke...@hu...>]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Joel Ebel wrote:

> Funny.. I thought it was MY lircd.conf file.  But that's ok.  Mr. Deluca

Oh, damnit. Didn't read the whole message, I was looking at this:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7376845

We have someone at my office named Bob DeLuca and the name always stuck in
my head. Sorry about that. Many thanks to you Joel, and all the lirc team
for this fine work! :-)

> added some useful comments to it.  Anyway, I'm using a radio shack
> receiver, and the tivo remote works as long as I'm at least 2 or 3 feet
> away from the receiver.  Any closer and it seems to overdrive it.  Other
> receivers may do better.  Maybe you could find some IR attenuating
> filter to put over it and reduce the strength.

I'm at distances of 6-10 feet away and still having issues. I can only get
it to react if I press the buttons in miscellaneous random positions. It
works 2-5% of the time.

I am not very familiar with IR and lirc beyond buying the 210L and
installing lirc, so forgive me if I sound like an idiot... What's a "IR
attenuating filter" ? I'm assuming it's something that would clear up the
IR signal for the receiver, but where would I get something like that?
Would it be something I had to build (cuz, like I can't), or is it
something I could just buy? Thanks again for all your help :-)
			-peace

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