As my theater room is layed out with the equipment at the rear I have the old problem of pointing my remote backwards. I need to simply have a IR reciever with an emmitter at the back of the room. I would rather avoid using the little IR mice that attach to each piece and use a larger emitter that hits all the equipment.
The problem is that I can find IR setups that are either cheap pieces of junk that get poor reviews from users or I find elaborate systems that no doubt work fine but are really overkill for my setup.
I found a simple schematic and tried building one but it didn't work. I suspect that the gp npn transistor was too weak in this application.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple (read: inexpensive) solution here? I do have a run of cat5 sitting there just for this use. (I did some thinking ahead.
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