On December 16, 2012 at 09:37, JoeFlabitz said...
There's no industry standard for the IR plugs on the backs of devices to insure they play nicely with anyone's control gear. Sometimes the polarity is reversed, sometimes the voltage is different, sometimes they have proprietary commands. If it doesn't work, move on and use the IR Emitter or maybe look if it has either IP or RS232 control instead.
The Integra is now working via the 3.5mm IR in plug. But the Cisco 8642 just doesn't seem to want to, so that's what I did (just using the emitter), though ideally I'd prefer to have used the IR in.
Mind you, I even find that the Cisco box doesn't like the emitter much either, not sure if this is because of where I placed it. But I found even my previous SA8300HD box similar in this regard with IR repeaters. Probably too easy to overload it??
