RE: [KAT5] IR Upgrade

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth (and I've not been following this thread in detail):

I've got a standard IR receiver built into an audio controller keypad
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next to my plasma (Panasonic 50" 5 series). Never once had a problem
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interference from any of the standard remotes or Pronto etc.

On the buzzing plasma front - mine has 3-4 fans which make a very small
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unt of noise but I never notice it. No other 'buzzing' apart from that.

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lists@xxxxxxx [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 September 2004 09:42
> To: kat5-users@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [KAT5] IR Upgrade
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> >> xantech have a Plasma friendly receiver but  i think its
> >> about 300 quid ..which is a tad expensive..
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> jesus!
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> > Xantech do plasma friendly IR receivers for about =A370...
> >
> > ...or at least they do at this dealers that I know.
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> Is that the 10726 thingy?
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> I've been talking to Frank about this off list, but maybe you can add
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e
> valuable insight.
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> What I have is linn knekt serving various zones.
> For each source to knekt, there is a stick on emitter to control it.
> This is zoned, so the keypad in the kitchen controlling the radio in
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> only sends IR to the radio, not to all the devices.
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> I ALSO have some powermids for places not knekt'ed up, which blast IR
at
> the same set of kit.
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> This all works well enough...except for the TiVo which does not like
> powermids, so TiVo is the only source in the lounge - everything else
is
> in node0.
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> problem: when I get all plasma'd up, there's no home for TiVo, so I
will
> need to move it to node0, and thus need hardwired IR - which means
> ditching the powermids.
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> IDEALLY, I would like to use the one set of emitters that the knekt is
> using to do the whole zoned IR bit when knekt is talking to the
sources,
> but from the other zones, since there is no way to choose which device
I
> want to control, I would want to blast IR out of all of the emitters.
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> This kind of may be possible with firm jr and/or some other kit of
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> but I'm wondering if some "commercial" kit in the mix would
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e
> too.
> I am a bit short on cat5 ports, so will for one zone at least, be
using
> KAT5 units with the IR upgrade, so that's another factor - the kit has
to
> be KAT5 compatible.
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> Any thoughts, oh great one?
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> Oh, and on the plasma front - do they tend to buzz a lot?  In John
Lewis
> the other day, I could hear a high pitched buzz off a number of
them....
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> cheers,
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> Tony
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