Interesting IR solution. Anyone know how to do it?

[herdfan]

I stopped by a neighbor's house to deliver some cookie dough my daughter had sold his wife for school and noticed his new projector. He invited me in to see it and I noticed he had an HR10 that he controlled via a Crestron touch panel. I asked him how the touch panel controlled the HR10 since I did not see an IR blaster.

He said the custom install company ran the wire into the HR10 and hardwired it to the IR receiver. WOW!

That would be a great solution for me as I can't get the IR blasters to stick on the curved IR window and a rack blaster doesn't work very well.

Any ideas.

Thanks.

[zdude1]

I am using the Microsmith Hot Link X12, and the small blaster/emitter from that system adheres just fine to the curved lens on my HR10. Controls up to 12 devices, and it's reasonably priced on the web.

[bwaldron]

I am using the Microsmith Hot Link X12, and the small blaster/emitter from that system adheres just fine to the curved lens on my HR10. Controls up to 12 devices, and it's reasonably priced on the web.

Sounds interesting, but not needed here. I've had no problems using IR blasters from a Slingbox and an MX-850 remote with my HR10.

[Runch Machine]

I stopped by a neighbor's house to deliver some cookie dough my daughter had sold his wife for school and noticed his new projector. He invited me in to see it and I noticed he had an HR10 that he controlled via a Crestron touch panel. I asked him how the touch panel controlled the HR10 since I did not see an IR blaster.

He said the custom install company ran the wire into the HR10 and hardwired it to the IR receiver. WOW!

That would be a great solution for me as I can't get the IR blasters to stick on the curved IR window and a rack blaster doesn't work very well.

Any ideas.

Thanks.

If you are handy you can open your receiver, remove the front cover and tape the IR blaseter over the IR pickup located on the front of the receiver behind the round window. Route the wire of the IR blaster out through a vent in the bottom of the receiver. I did this and it was easy.

[herdfan]

So the window is not attached to the IR receiver. Maybe that is what they did for my neighbor as well. I will give it a shot tomorrow. The easy part will be opening the receiver, the hard part will be getting it out of the cabinet. :eek:

[TyroneShoes]

The most important thing to watch out for is that when you put the HR10 back together make sure that the flexible connector ribbon to the front panel is still seated properly. It is just pushed into a slot and can be pulled loose easily, so give it a push back in as a last step, even if you think you never came anywhere near it. Weaknees claims that powering up with this loose or disconnected can boat-anchor a Tivo. I, for one, don't intend to test that theory.

[mr.unnatural]

If you power up the Tivo with the ribbon cable disconnected you will burn out an inductor on the IR control board, causing an open circuit and disabling the IR receiver. I believe you can repair it by simply installing a jumper wire across the terminals of either L1 or L2 on the board. The ideal solution would be to replace the inductor but apparently replacing it with a straight wire does the trick with no reported adverse effects. There are lots of posts about this in various forums.