[mythtv-users] OT IR receiver Extensions and Furniture.

[Nemo Inis]

This will do it. You won't have any money left to buy the furniture, 
but it will do it :-)

<http://www.smarthome.com/8225p.html>


On Feb 2, 2007, at 5:15 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:

> I was looking at some TV furniture with my wife. Everything she liked
> had a solid front, thus completely hiding the mythbox, amplifier, (now
> defunct) VCR and CD player. I like the look too, but there is this
> problem of getting the remote's IR signal inside to the correct place.
>
> Does anyone know of a method of 'light-piping' an IR signal from the
> oustide of a piece of furniture to the correct spot inside.
>
> Would it be possible to feed the signal using, for example a digital
> TOSlink, or an LED lightpipe or even strands of optical fibre.
>
> I am thinking that I might be able to get away with a rod like section
> of glass, or clear plastic, through the door, but it is unlikely that
> the best place for a hole in the door, lines up with a receiver.
>
> Wild ideas always accepted. (But those espousing a radio based remote
> might be deprecated as I have not yet seen an acceptable one...)
>
> Geoff
>
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