Homemade Serial Receiver

If you can solder and can figure out what shops sell transistors then you can make your own serial receiver.

The main source of information is here: http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html

There's a part Type=section&part Name=introduction step by step guide here

And what you'll be building is something like this:

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And if you squish it down it can look like this:

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and if you have a one of the Hauppage PVRs you could use that (they look a lot neater!) :

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One advantage of building it like this (with the 1.5mm stereo plug/jack) is that you have the ability to route the actual IR receiver anywhere (even another room - though I don't know what the maximum distance would be).

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oh, if you want your 1.5mm jack plug to be compatible with the Hauppauge:

Base = GND
Ring = signal
Tip = VCC+

Someone on the (MythTV-Users) mail list claims 281 Ft using CAT5 and Hauppage IR sensor.

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oh, if you want your 1.5mm jack plug to be compatible with the Hauppauge:

Base = GND
Ring = signal
Tip = VCC+

Someone on the (MythTV-Users) mail list claims 281 Ft using CAT5 and Hauppage IR sensor.

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