A potential new customer has an extensive audio-visual equipment collection housed behind solid flat panel doors. His wife is tired of the doors always open so the remote control infrared signals can reach the equipment, and he doesn’t want to mess with auxilliary IR receivers and programming them.
He asked about replacement louvered doors as possibly allowing the IR signal from remotes reaching the equipment. I suspect the louvers would have to be horizontal with perhaps a 1/4″ gap between to allow IR signals through, which wouldn’t hide the equipment in the cabinet. I wondered about speaker fabric cover material, but we don’t know if fabric that would allow IR signals through would be sufficiently opaque to hide the equipment.
Has anyone found a door “panel” that would not block IR signals from remote controls and has some opacity? (The customer will email tech support for his various pieces of equipment for suggestions.)
Thanks.
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You can get teeny-tiny IR repeaters for exactly this sort of application: http://www.smarthomeusa.com/ShopByManufacturer/Microsmith/Item/HLPRO/
-Steve
I have a receiver located behind my center speaker cover which feeds the units. You don't program it. It sends the signal to all units but only the unit that uses the signal responds. So you could use speaker cloth on the door panels but stretch it tight to let the signal through.
Thanks for both your responses. The "customer" likely won't be one yet, but he was quite pleased. By the way, the manufacturer's entire line of products can be found at http://www.hot-link.com. I may have lost an order for a couple replacement doors, but they would have looked clunky at best. I'm pretty confident I'll get very positive referrals from him, and consideration when he does need a custom piece. Great!
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