[mythtv-users] IR transmitter help

Kyle Gordon kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com
Sun Jul 3 10:47:09 UTC 2011


On 03/07/11 11:32, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 03/07/11 04:25, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Doug Lytle<support at drdos.info>   wrote:
>>> Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>>> I presume it's
>>>> sending IR as well
>>> You can confirm this by pointing the view finder of a digital camera at
>>> the transmitter.  IR is be visible though that.
>> For that to work I'd need a very special digital camera or filter.
>> Given that there is a visible light flash at the same time, and I
>> don't have any camera which isn't also sensitive to visible light, the
>> flash on the camera screen wouldn't tell me anything I don't already
>> know.
>>
> Nope. *Any* digital camera is capable of seeing the infra-red from a remote (or
> blaster), even the cheapo ones.
>
Isn't the point here that an IR flash would be obscured by the already 
visible _visible light_ flash?

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