Second zone remote

Do you think that this might be covered in the owner's manual? Denon has a pretty good website with lots of documentation. If you can't find it try this:

Been there, done that... All they show is a non Id'd box with wires to another non-Id'd box.. Also emailed their tech support, but figured I might get better (or more) options here...

It would also be nice to have the soluti> J Miller wrote:

The Powermid is only 55 bucks and you can add on more receivers and transmitters in other rooms than just two:

My electronically ballasted aquarium lights blow it "out of the water" ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Here's what Devon Tech support pointed me to:

(not from SmartHome, but the same product)

I'm staying away from the X10 thing, as over the years, I've found X10's stuff like this to be of poor quality.

Slick, I wonder how the battery-substitute transmitter "sees" what IR signals the remote is trying to send so it can echo them out in RF? Is that waveform passed electrically through the batteries in all remotes? Or is there a sensor you need to hook up that sees the remotes IR emitter and is wired back to the battery-substitute unit? However it works its a pretty cool idea to substitute the battery with an RF unit.

Just got it today.. There's two included 2/3 AAA size batteries that goes in the RF module, and one is charging now, so it will be a few hours before I try it. The receiver part contains the charger, and with

2 batteries, one's in the charger when the other is in use.

It must do something with current sense to detect the IR pulses. I'll post how well it works!

Just tried it.. It works great!

Just pop out one battery, and pop in the RF unit. No wires or IR sensor.

Everything that switches puts out a small (or sometimes large) amount of RF (which is usually considered EMI). The transmitter circuitry senses this from the IR emitter circuitry, amplifies it, and sends it as RF. It's an ingenious idea.

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