Samsung box and TV senders?

[Busby]

I've used a TV sender for my pace box for teh past year and a half with no problems.

Just received the new samsung box and although teh TV sender still sends the picture fine it no longer allows me to change channel from another room using the TV sender.

It uses thos little dongle thingy's you put in front of the IR signal receiver to change the channels.

Anyone else had a problem with this? Also can someone comfirm exactly where the IR receiver is on the samsung box?

Thanks

[bob_builder]

The Samsung box uses the standard IR signal and not IRDA as used on the Bromley Pace box. You should be able to use the TV sender without the IR changers infront of the receiver required for the Pace.

[Rob]

A common problem I'm afraid since the PACE uses IRDA for the remote control, but the Samsung uses a more standard IR for the remote signals.

In theory, products such as the DigiEye that work over IRDA will work with IR too, but it's tempermental, and not easy to set up. I managed to place the sender dongle thingy just in front of the centre panel of the Samsung. I then had the receiver unit (the thing I pointed the remote at) not next to the telly, but offset from it as I found the remote seemed to overpower the signal if I pointed directly at the receiver. Indeed I found the remote needed to only just about see out of a corner of it's beam, the receiver. Some have said interference from other products, heat sources, etc could mess up the signalling too.

[Busby]

Thanks for the replies.

Hopefully a play about with the position of the receivers and dongles will help things then.

I imagnie they are capable of changing it as you said becuase Ir is more popular.

Thanks again.

[Mr_Burns]

Originally Posted by Busby

I've used a TV sender for my pace box for teh past year and a half with no problems.

Just received the new samsung box and although teh TV sender still sends the picture fine it no longer allows me to change channel from another room using the TV sender.

It uses thos little dongle thingy's you put in front of the IR signal receiver to change the channels.

Anyone else had a problem with this? Also can someone comfirm exactly where the IR receiver is on the samsung box?

Thanks

I've just had a new Samsung box too and had the same problem. I think, but I'm not sure, that the IR receiver is just to the left of the channel number display. That's where I've put the dongle thingy and it's working fine now.

BTW the Pace boxes in original ntl areas (Langley) have always used the IR protocol. Only the ex-CWC (Bromley) Pace boxes use IRDA.