Hi,Peeps,from France,
Good morning, can anybody help me with a problem I have. My TV is wall mounted and the Humax box is concealed in a cuboard.I want to be able to control the box without opening the door. I am told that a magic eye will not work as there isn't any power from the RF conection,there is on a Sky box. So this is my problem, can anybody help?
A nagic eye won't work even with power, a Sky box has internal circuitry that understands the vhf transmission sent back down the coax from the magic eye. There are a number of wireless infra red extenders available (powermids is one). There are also ways of making magic eyes work for instance
http://www.beststuff.co.uk/store/Bluedelta-Smart-Blaster-Universal.htm
I've used a TVlink+ (see link)which is basically the same as the Sky system but has the power supplied from a plug-in adapter. Obviously it depends on a coax connection between where the IR receiver is and the IR 'Blaster' but there's no rerason why that all couldn't be inside the cupboard with just the IR receiver visible.
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