You run hundreds, maybe thousands of metres of cable round your home. People look at you funny, some point at you and snigger.
This week the advantages of a having a cabled home were realised once again. After a 12 month "sentence" using the Pyramid style IR-RF-IR repeaters we were so fed up. It was always a balancing act trying to get them to work. Some nights you were walking round the bedroom upstairs trying all sorts of different angles to try and control the TiVo or DigiBox downstairs.
So..hardwired IR distribution was high on the adgenda for James Hoyes annual Automate-a-thon. Here is how we got it all operating...
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