Infra Red Setup

Depending on where your equipment is positioned in your room, you may / may not need any IR extenders, since many will just be sitting on their couch, looking a their TV and all the amps / receivers are also around the TV in front of you.

Well, I wanted to keep my equipment as out of sight as possible, since I live in a detached bungalow, I also had the option of running extensive cabling if needed, and it sure was!

As you can see above,my TV is mounted nicely on the wall with no equipemt in sight.

So to control everything, this is where the IR extenders com into the setup. You can sit in front of the TV, then with your Harmony remote send the IR signals in the direction of the TV, that we are all used to doing, the IR reciever (hidden at bottom of TV pointed inwards to wall) then picks up the IR light signals, and repeats them over cat 5 to over 10 meters away to my equipment. in the rear left corner.

This is the device I used for the setup:

http://www.hot-link.com/pages/products.cgi?mrchcatid=1&mrchid=11

Hot Link XL controls gear up to 200 feet away with all the features of Hot Link Pro.

A complete single box solution, Hot Link ProXL(TM) Remote Control Booster Systems comes complete with Power Supply, Main Amplifier Box and Remote Emitter/Power Entry box, 6 Emitters and Receiver Eye. The Receiver Eyes of all Hot Link(TM) models can be extended to 25 feet using RG6 adapted to RCA connections

Features include:

• Super-Compatible IR Eye works with virtually all Plasma and LCD TVs, satellite and cable receivers and other AV gear and can be mounted anywhere
• Eye cable is 6 feet long
• Emitters and Confirmation LED cables are 7 feet long
• Cat-5 Jumper in box is 6 inches and can be changed to 200 feet.

• also got a Emitter Expansion Kit X6 so I codl add more than 6 devices...