I was contemplating relocating my kit into an enclosed cabinet and using a NetX to control them.

I've downloaded the info on it and looking at the box contents it comes with 4 dual IR emitters. Does this mean you can control 4 items or 8 components per NetX.

Also what is the span of the distance between the emitters on the same cable?

Thanks guys.

There are 4 dual emitters giving 8 heads in total. As supplied, the distance from the plug on a lead to the junction is 2.2m. From the junction to each head is then 30cm. With care, I think you could cut away the plastic junction and split the cable further if the spacing is too small.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the help pjgregory.

Thats great to hear, I have 6 components and I wasnt going to bother if I had to buy two NetX's!!!

The furthest spread between the emitters if I run the cable under the upper component would be 30cm in total so thats cool.

Has anyone had any issues with the NetX? What isthe signal strength like once it's placed in enclosed cabinet, etc etc

Thanks in advance

My netx should arrive today. If I am correct in what the netx is (and I am pretty sure I am) your question on signal strength is the wrong question. The netx receives no RF signals, but rather gets data from the LAN it and the iPronto are connected to. The question is where is your wireless access point in relation to the iPronto.

Well I was wrong about the netx. It does not attach to the network, it does receive RF signals directly. Why it even has a an IP address is beyond me. I do not see a real difference functionally between it and the old RF to IR device sold with the Pronto Pro. I would have tought since they had a tcp/ip and UDP stack in the iPronto they would have just used UDP or TCP/IP to talk to the NetX.

Any one who understands the logic beyond the design could perhaps enlighten me. See the new thread I am starting on a Netx for sale

That is just bizarre! Why on earth did Philips do it this way??

The NetX does too attach to the network -- exclusively. It will not/can not use non-802.11 RF to communicate. Each NetX has a small 802.11 wireless NIC chipset inside, and communicates over your existing LAN setup using 802.11b. As such, the NetX must be in range of at least one of your wireless access points to work. There is a reason the NetX is configured with an IP address. :)
I have 3 NetX's (in different locations) in use here in my home alone, and they are all working famously. I did have to add a booster to one of my access points, and had to put in an additional access point elsewhere, to extend out my coverage so it would encompass the NetX.

I agree that the netx is reachable from a hardwired LAN or any LAN through an 802.11B WAQP. But the only communicatiopns I see going on with a NETX from the iPronto is not through the LAN except during initial discovery. All "RF" communications appears to be directly to the netx and not through the WAP. It does not appear that the iPRonto uses either TCP/IP or UDP when talking to the NETX. I put a sniffer on the LAN (wired side). If the iPronto was communicating through a standard LAN protocol I should see something on the sniffer. I never did other than when the NETX was being discovered (On the original pronto RF devices they had a channel selector switch). I was hoping to reverse engineer the "RF" prtocol if it was a LAN protocol so I could use a PC as the reciever of the pronto commands in lieu of the Netx. I have given up on that althouigh I do believe it would open an interesting market for the iPronto