Trying to install the latest KINECT above a new Samsung UN55ES8000 and there is a conflict between motion sensor built into TV and KINECT. Outside of diving into the Samsung TV menus to disable motion sensor anyone have discretes that can be applied to RTI remote control? Trying to setup a macro for my customer to play the XBOX and macro would include disabling TV built in sensor.

If you can't find a way to do it through the menus, you might be able to just block and unblock the sensor?

You could use a Radio Control servo, and attach the servo arm to a piece of opaque plastic or metal. You could use an Arduino to send the pulse train to the servo. A 1ms pulse will make the servo go to one extreme, and a 2ms pulse will make the servo go to the other extreme. You would just need to rig the piece of plastic or metal to cover the sensor in one position, and uncover it in the other. The arduino's are pretty easy to program, and you shouldn't need a servo with much torque, so the 5V logic outputs of the Arduino should be fine. You could either use the serial port to trigger the switch, or you could get a version with networking, and send a command via IP.

Anyway, possibly an idea if all else fails.

I like your thinking.

Just wondering what the conflict is. Like swinging your arm to hit a volleyball on the screen with xBox and as a result, the same action changes the input on the Samsung?

Just trying to find out what to look our for.

...and, once more, this is why we call it Custom:


This made me laugh out loud because it is a PERFECT answer and yet is rather outlandish for the type of stuff we normally do.

That, of course, was only after I stopped laughing about the totally predictable [but probably nobody stopped to think it through that far] conflict between two different motion sensing systems. Gee, maybe the motion sensors wouldn't have any problem if you'd just modulate your arm movements for the TV at 38 kHz, and modulate your arm motions for the Kinect at 455 kHz!