Hi,
I've got an emerging (budget) home theatre room, with the fortunate attribute that my house's main storage room is on the other side of a thick wall.
My plan is drill some holes and isolate a capture/playback/storage HTPC on the far side of the wall, along with the AV receiver and cable box. I anticipate future growth to a second cable box, and potentially other devices.
And so here's the thing: It seems to me I need the IR *receiver* on the HT side of the wall, and the main *emitter* setup on the far side of the wall. I suppose for now I could buy or build an emitter and use the emitter port on the USB-UIRT, but it seems to me that solution fails as soon as I have more than two devices, since the external emitters are low-power, once-device units. Is that right?
What is the best way to set this up cheaply using USB-UIRT? Is it any of the following?
1. I don't anticipate needing more than two zones. Can I connect multiple emitters to the same channel safely? If so, any precautions necessary?
2. Could I attach a second USB-UIRT to the same PC and accomplish this somehow?
3. Or is it possible to create a custom USB-UIRT that separates receive and emit?
Thanks for your thoughts ...
K