Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Bismarck, ND
Posts: 114

How powerful is your IR?

I wanted to try using Omniremote on my Prism, since I now have a DVD player, which now necessitates me having separate remotes (I have gotten it down to 3 out of 4)... Still a pain. Omniremote looks cool, and I read somewhere that the Prism's IR could go as far as 30 feet. Well, I can't mine to work any farther than 3-5 feet!

Am I doing something wrong here?

Any information folks on this issue?

TIA....

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Re: How powerful is your IR?

Originally posted by headgamer:
I wanted to try using Omniremote on my Prism, since I now have a DVD player, which now necessitates me having separate remotes (I have gotten it down to 3 out of 4)... Still a pain. Omniremote looks cool, and I read somewhere that the Prism's IR could go as far as 30 feet. Well, I can't mine to work any farther than 3-5 feet!

Am I doing something wrong here?

Probably not. IR distance varies depending on the strength of your battery and the receptiveness of the device you're controlling. With the built-in IR on my old VDx, I could control my TV from the other side of my living room (~15-20ft), but I could only control my VCR from 5ft or less. The module worked from across the room on either, though, so it obviously made a difference. If you're serious about using your Prism as a remote, you may want to bite the bullet and get the module. OTOH, with prices where they are lately, a 2MB Visor Solo and an Omniremote module is pretty competitive with programmable learning remotes with LCDs, so that may be an idea as well.