On 7/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Woelk</b> <<a href="mailto:richardwoelk@yahoo.ca">richardwoelk@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greg,<br>I have done something similar to this with a friend's setup. He has two<br>satellite receivers hooked up to a pvr-500 card.<br>I simply made the homebrew transmitter with two IR LEDs in parallel.<br>Each one is stuck to the face of it's own satellite receiver. I had to
<br>change the resistor value to allow more current to the LEDs, but it<br>works. The receivers are set on different remote codes, so, even though<br>the same signal goes to both, only the proper one responds.<br><br>A powerful LED would work too, if you are not concerned with
<br>interference (ie people walking in between)<br>A nice way to see IR light is to use a video camera or the viewfinder of<br>a digital still camera. most CCDs are sensitive to IR<br><br>Richard Woelk<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br>That's a great idea! Thank you.<br><br>-Greg<br>