IR blasters

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:25 pm

anyone familiar with these things?

Post by **Lyion** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:34 pm

Pain in the ass. I'm familiar, but won't be a great help.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:44 pm

I guess what I'm wondering mostly, is if there's a way to make 1 IR blaster talk to 2 devices

ie, digital tv, 1 set top box per channel
if you want to use a dual tuner card (let's say a hauppauge 500) you'd need 2 STB's
the hauppauge cards do have IR blasters, but I'm guessing i'd need 1 IRblaster per STB, and probably have to tape the sucker right to each STB to make sure 1 blaster doesn't accidently change the channel on both stb

Post by **Gidan** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:34 am

I have tried to get an IR blaster to talk to 2 seperate devices and have yet to be able to do it. You are probably going to need to have 2 seperate ones.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:55 pm

god, i hate these fucking things