On January 26, 2017 at 13:10, Ernie Gilman said...
This can bite anyone, too. URC had a processor that had 2.5mm emitter connectors instead of 3.5mm connectors. The sample sailed through testing and was approved. It didn't occur to anyone to plug an old IR emitter into it, and I guess whoever checked out the samples was not geeky enough to just plain notice that the plugs were the wrong diameter. I believe they "fixed" this by making 2.5mm to 3.5mm adaptors available.
I remember all of the hate for those and URC had nothing to do with it- the adapters have been available for decades, but adapters add to the chances of failure. Unfortunately, Harmony's new hub has 2.5mm jacks and I have already made the point well known that if they want the CI chain to use it in any kind of large numbers, they need to change that.
It works, though.
