RE: Powermid/Tivo Problems

["Justin" <justin@xxxxxxx>]

Tony,

I have the same problem and your post has reminded me that I saw mentioned
somewhere that the batteries supplied with the Tivo remote can be shi*e and
replacing these can help with range & reliability. Not tried it yet so
can't
say if it will help, but worth a go.

Justin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 June 2002 2:59 PM
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: [ukha_d] Powermid/Tivo Problems
>
>
> I posted to the UKHA_D Tivo group earlier about my new Tivo and one of
the
> problems I've had is unreliable repeating of the Tivo IR with a pair
of
> powermids.
> All other devices work quite happily with the powermids, and I
> belive pronto
> CCF files for the Tivo work fine, but pronto has a low WAF so I
> really need
> to be able to use a 'proper' remote for ther Tivo.
>
> I had a quick scoot around tivocommunity.com reveals that ppl
> have variously
> reported powermids to always work, to never work, to work if they
> press the
> key twice.
> It's frustrating to say the least to have so many different
> results reported
> :-(
>
> Anyway, I thought this was more properly the group to mention it
> rather than
> the TiVo spin-off as so many of you have experience of IR distribution
> issues and I'm sure all the UKHA tivo commmunity are here anyway....
>
> First of all, I'm wondering why this is an issue at all - if the
> pronto tivo
> commands work fine then the tivo peanut commands should work too.
> The LED on the powermid always lights up when I press a peanut
> button, so it
> is receiving the tivo signal okay....
>
> I've got a couple of powermids dotted about the place and I don't
really
> want to have to replace them just to get this working right.
> I don't mind installing a little low cost additional device so long as
it
> doesn't interfere with the current setup.
> I could bung in something wired if I really had to as I have a
> 'spare' CAT5
> cable that could carry the signals, but would prefer wireless...
>
> Anyone got any suggestions, preferably on how to get the existing
setup to
> be more reliable?
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> Tony.
>
>
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