All,
I'm almost done with the basement (electrical, trim, carpet to go!) and have started looking at remote controls. I will have the equipment in a closet off to the right of the theather so I figured I'd get an RF remote. Then I started looking at the prices and realized that they're pretty expensive (the Home Theater Master MX850, for example, vs the MX500 which I already have in my living room).
So I started wondering about transmitting IR into the closet instead. I have a cat5 run that goes into the equipment closet, and it's right below where the screen will be; is there any way to send the IR signal over those wires? I seem to recall seeing some sort of IR device for the Leviton Quickports (which are the frames I'm using), but I can't find them now and I never read that closely when I saw them.
Any ideas? Or should I bite the bullet and just buy the MX850?
CW
I'm almost done with the basement (electrical, trim, carpet to go!) and have started looking at remote controls. I will have the equipment in a closet off to the right of the theather so I figured I'd get an RF remote. Then I started looking at the prices and realized that they're pretty expensive (the Home Theater Master MX850, for example, vs the MX500 which I already have in my living room).
So I started wondering about transmitting IR into the closet instead. I have a cat5 run that goes into the equipment closet, and it's right below where the screen will be; is there any way to send the IR signal over those wires? I seem to recall seeing some sort of IR device for the Leviton Quickports (which are the frames I'm using), but I can't find them now and I never read that closely when I saw them.
Any ideas? Or should I bite the bullet and just buy the MX850?
CW