Keene IR Distribution

[pmanson]

Over the Christmas holiday's we've been moving various bit around and it's ended up with us mounting the bedroom TV on the wall. I've run the cables into the walk in wardrobe below but now need to control them.

I've seen kits advertised by Keene Electronics before and recommended on AV Forums but I was wondering if any one had used them before?

We only need to control a DVD player and a Virgin box so I was thinking about getting this kit

[rex]

Used it in the previous house without any problems apart from bluetac holding transmitter to front of amp kept coming off. Duct tape sone sorted it out though.

[TonyHetherington]

I've got that Keene set up - very good indeed.

I forget which kit I ordered now, but it uses that same control box and you just change whether you use low power or high power emitters and what sort of receivers you have. (low power are fine for 99.9% of situations).

Really really excellent - and you can hide it really well, rather than those Argos jobbies which are quite bold.

I use my IR setup to control my Virgin and PopCorn hour from two locations - the main living room and the bedroom, but the living room all the units are hidden.

Works very well. If you need to extend the cables, too, it's purely stereo jack lead (you can buy from keene).

[pmanson]

Excellent. I've installed the TV in the bedroom on the wall (behind is the walk in wardrobe and stair box).

Plan was to get the kit above and just drill the 16mm hole straight through the wall into the wardrobe.

[TonyHetherington]

Have you seen they do a flush wall mount IR receiver? If I understand you right, that could certainly be worth it.

I was always worried there'd be a bit of lag between me pushing the button and the channel changing. Not a thing, literally not a single millisecond of lag.

[pmanson]

TonyHetherington said:

Have you seen they do a flush wall mount IR receiver? If I understand you right, that could certainly be worth it.

I was always worried there'd be a bit of lag between me pushing the button and the channel changing. Not a thing, literally not a single millisecond of lag.

The flush mount looked quite large (size of a single plug socket)

The Panel Mount looks ideal:

[TonyHetherington]

Ah sorry, that's the one I meant - panel mount (didn't realise there was something different called flush mount also!)

[Ralf Rockefeller]

I used them- they were great.

I purchased the Pyramid IR transmitter things to hit my units. Works fine on my V+ box & Sky box. Although for some reason the V+ box requires strong batteries to work properly!

[allgonepetetong]

I can concuur.

I have a Keane supplied Powermid system as mentioned already as my kit is under the stairs and my TV and sound system in the lounge.

The IR emmiters have a double sided tape on them so stick easily over the receptor on your equipment.

100% flawless so far.