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Infra Red over TCP/IP

I appreciate that this isn't strictly home automation, but the concepts are the same if you have a big enough house.

I am hoping to control a device (e.g. an ordinary DVD player) using the supplied remote control over a distance of 100's of miles. In order to do this I am hoping to acquire an IR receiver that can encapsulate the output from the supplied remote and encapsulate it in a datagram (TCP/IP) and throw it down an ethernet link such that it can be reassembled by a similarly capable IR transmitter an arbitrary distance away (over a low latency 34Mbps link) and control the device as if the remote was within the typical operating distance of the device/remote pair. In fact the solution must have an ethernet port and communicate via a TCP/IP link.

(I have a couple of Barix Exstreamer digital's, but they only relay IR received from the supplied Barix IR remote control)

Can anyone recommend a device-pair/solution?

Thanks,

Denys Williams

If you think of a device/remote pair for which this will never work then that isn't the device I want to control, but you are really quite clever.

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Denys Williams
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I don't think you will find anything that will do exactly what you want (i.e. capture & encapsulation) but you can accomplish this with a PC (or even 802.11 equipped PDA) and a little bit of programming using the Global Caché GC-100 on the DVD end.

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Dave Houston

What about this Barix product?

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seems to indicate it would do what you want.

Not sure if you can buy it yet, but it does look interestng

dan

Denys Williams wrote:

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Dan

You could do things the fun way and built your own device using a rabbit microcontroller

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or simmilar. The rabbit core modules have ethernet built right on them. All you'd need is an IR reciever module and some programming skills.

Just a suggestion

-Paul

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Paul

Nice try Dan, but if you look a bit further you'll see they (Barix) are just banging on about the technology that is integrated into the Exstreamer Digital product (among others) and not actually marketing a stand alone IR over IP solution. Perhaps there is something under development, but I need a solution a little sooner.

Thanks anyway,

Denys

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brigman

Judging by the product list, it is a seperate product, so they are marketing it as a stand alone product

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Have you tried contacting them about this?

dan

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Dan

Erm, I'm kinda repeating myself here, but here we go:

Nice try Dan, but if you look a bit further you'll see they (Barix) are just banging on about the technology that is integrated into the Exstreamer Digital product (among others) and not actually marketing a stand alone IR over IP solution. Perhaps there is something under development, but I need a solution a little sooner.

Thanks anyway,

Denys

BTW, Dan, if it doesn't sink in this time, give yourself a bit of a tap on the head with something hard and re-read the above.

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Denys Williams

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