[slinkelist] How do I get Slinke to echo IR to the remote-IR box
Colby Boles
cboles@nirvis.com
Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:20:02 -0700
Xantech makes such emitters. You can get them from places like
www.smarthome.com
Colby
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Geoffrion [mailto:kgeoffrion@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:46 AM
> To: cboles@nirvis.com
> Subject: RE: [slinkelist] How do I get Slinke to echo IR to the
> remote-IR box
>
>
> Colby,
>
> This reminded me that I wanted to ask if you knew of any of the really
> small, flat IR emitters that you place directly in front of a device's
> receiver that are electrically compatible with the slink-e?
>
> My TV is the only device I need to use IR for, so instead of placing the
> standard emitter that comes with the slink-e in a place that the TV can
> "see", I'd rather use a very fine wire and place the emmitter directly on
> the TV for esthetics.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Colby Boles" <cboles@nirvis.com>
> To: "Hunt, Ed" <ed.hunt@attws.com>, <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
> Subject: RE: [slinkelist] How do I get Slinke to echo IR to the remote-IR
> box
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:30:36 -0700
>
> Do you have an expansion adapter? If not, you're probably not connecting
> your transmitter to IRTX7. If you're plugging it into the built in modular
> jack, that's IRTX0. So, you want to echo IRRX0 to IRTX0, not IRRX0 to
> IRTX7....
>
> Colby
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com
> [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > Behalf Of Hunt, Ed
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:18 PM
> > To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > Subject: RE: [slinkelist] How do I get Slinke to echo IR to the
> > remote-IR box
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the replies from Colby, Peter and Ron.
> >
> > I ran SlinkeServ and tried echoing port 0 to port 7 and various
> > combinations
> > of port configurations and wrote them to RAM and EEPROM each time
> > but at no
> > time could I seem to get it to work.
> >
> > I'm using the remote that came with my CDP-CX240 and can see the Sony
> > commands received when I run CDJ, so I know the port 0 receiver is
> working
> > on the Slinke box. How is that remote IR box wired, please? I
> > could pry it
> > open and check the wiring.
> >
> > Any more ideas?
> >
> > Ed Hunt
> > TPS, Technology Development Group
> > AT&T Wireless Services
> > ed.hunt@attws.com
> > 425 580 6743
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Ron Chrisley[SMTP:ron@chrisley.freeserve.co.uk]
> > > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:50 AM
> > > To: Hunt, Ed; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > > Subject: Re: [slinkelist] How do I get Slinke to
> echo IR to the
> > > remote-IR box
> > >
> > > I'm no expert, but I think you have to configure Slink-e to echo by
> > > setting
> > > the firmware. I've done it via the PC; I don't know how to do so
> > > otherwise.
> > > From the help file:
> > >
> > > Setting up the IR ports to echo commands into other rooms
> > >
> > > The Slink-e has a handy feature which allows you to "echo"
> the commands
> > > picked up by the receiver module in one room to the transmitter
> > modules in
> > > other locations. The Slink-e is very flexible in terms of which
> > receivers
> > > get echoed to which transmitters, and you must set up the Slink-e to
> > > specify
> > > these settings. Using SLINKSERV.EXE, go to the
> View->Slink-es->Settings
> > > dialog. In this dialog there is a cross-point matrix of blue lines
> which
> > > specify which receiver inputs (on the left) go to which transmitter
> > > outputs
> > > (on the top). By clicking on any of the line intersections
> you can turn
> > > "on"
> > > (a red dot) or "off" (no red dot) the connection between a
> > given receiver
> > > and transmitter. Each receiver can go to any / all of the 8
> > transmitters.
> > > For each receiver you must also specify the carrier frequency of the
> > > remotes
> > > you are using, since the receiver module does not pass this
> > information on
> > > to the Slink-e. The choose a default of 40000Hz if you are not sure.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Hunt, Ed <ed.hunt@attws.com>
> > > To: <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 5:39 AM
> > > Subject: [slinkelist] How do I get Slinke to echo IR to the
> > remote-IR box
> > >
> > >
> > > > Folks,
> > > > I've now put my two CDP-CX240s into a cabinet with a
> wooden door with
> > > the
> > > > Slinke unit on top, quite discreetly. I'd like to use the IR echo
> > > function,
> > > > as I believe this works even without a PC, so I plugged the
> > RJ-11 cable
> > > into
> > > > the Slinke and placed the small phone-jack-box-IR unit
> that came with
> > > the
> > > > Slinke inside the cabinet door. However I don't seem to get any
> > > > transmission out of that unit. It's not to do with
> position, because
> > > I've
> > > > tried holding the box three feet away with the door open
> > using the Sony
> > > > remote near the Slinke so that there was no direct IR
> signal into the
> > > > cabinet.
> > > >
> > > > When I run CDJ I can see that it is receiving Sony IR
> signals, but I
> > > don't
> > > > have CDJ programmed to do anything with them.
> > > >
> > > > Am I missing something?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Ed Hunt
> > > > ed.hunt@attws.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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