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Hi.
I'm about to start my home automation journey and I am now in the tweaking design phase.
I have some questions concerning IR. I bought several IR sensors for in-ceiling installation to connect them all to a IR hub which has a sensor input and blaster outputs. (something like this:
IR Repeater)
I also bought a USB-UIRT.
My problem is that I would like for the IR system to know where I am. I would like to have CQC knowing where I am using the same remote. How can I do that? I have read about zoned IR hubs but that doesn't seem to be what I want.
Any help?
Regards,
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I think the only way for that to work automatically is to use a usb-uirt for each different zone.
Brian - a long time user that rarely messes with the system now
Other systems used:
SageTV w/ cablecard tuner & multiple extenders for viewing
BlueIris and IP cameras for CCTV
Incredible PBX for home phone
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Thanks for the reply.
Ouch....I would need 9 usb-uirts
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I'll have to think this over.
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Do you have a security system? I use motion sensor information from my elk to achieve this. But i think i have a lot less ground to cover than you!
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Yes...I guess I could do it using motion sensors info but that would be unreliable. If there are two persons in different rooms...how would I know what to do?
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Since your IR hub will know which sensor received a message, can't you make use of that info?
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Yeh, you'd have to use separate commands in each area and use that to trigger different commands or some such thing. With the global actions system you could effectively have just 9 small IR events, each of which just set a global variable with a zone number, and then invoked the associated global action (TV on, volume adjust, whatever...) so you wouldn't have to replicate the logic 9 times or anything. This assumes you want to do the same thing per zone. In some cases it might be easiert to just have 9 different IR commands, one per each zone's TV ON, volume, etc... since they'd be doing different things anyway.
But if you are looking to carry around a remote with you, that wouldn't work very well. It would only be really doable if there was a remote per zone and they stayed put.
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Fonceur Wrote:Since your IR hub will know which sensor received a message, can't you make use of that info?
The IR hub doesn't know which sensor was triggered AFAIK.
Dean Roddey Wrote:Yeh, you'd have to use separate commands in each area and use that to trigger different commands or some such thing.
Dean Roddey Wrote:But if you are looking to carry around a remote with you, that wouldn't work very well. It would only be really doable if there was a remote per zone and they stayed put.
Yes. That was what I intended but it requires different remotes or programmable remotes. Most of them will be Pronto's so no problem but the kid's remotes are basically weemotes or apple remotes.
