USB-UIRT Forum

I recently decided that using Cinemar's Main/DVD Lobby was the way to go for control and quickly purchased all the needed SW and Hardware. I plan to install a Touchscreen just outside my theater entrance to be used as a marquee/User remote for the HT and the rest of the basement with the Main Lobby SW
as the interface.
It might help to get a visual of where things are located too:

Capstone Theater

Here's what I have:
PC installed with 1. USB-UIRT, 2. Girder 3.3 both Functioning perfectly on XP PRO-SP2. I've already created some cmd strings but it's the IR send/recv that cause problems.
Typical HT Components- Rcvr, DVD, DirecTiVo, HDTV, XBox, GameCube and a Zektor
and lastly...

IRZ6+ Zonable IR Extender <-- PDF Manual Link which also works well.
The IRZ6+ has a recvr pickup above my screen and emmiters that are stuck to all of my components except for 2 elements:

1. Z10K Projector.
2. 4 IR capable Lutron SpacerSwitches.

For these two items I am forced to use a blaster facing backwards towards these items rather than stuck-on emmitters. The blaster is at the back of the room along with the rest of the equipment and PC. For a "wireless solution" I sure as hell have a lot of wires coming out into my room"
If you are still with me...Thanks :)

Now... How do I best integrate the USBUIRT into this mix? Placement wise; when I put the USBUIRT in a good position to accept cmds from my remote, it's not in a good position to send and vise-versa mainly because the blaster at the back of the room seems to ping-pong the effects.

How can the output mini-jack on the USBUIRT help fix this placement dilemma? if so, help me with the steps please.

Thanks for your help and consideration.

Cappy

Here's what you'll probably need to do:

1. Use the IR emitter jack on the USB-UIRT with a small low-power stick-on emitter to emit directly into the IR receiver you have mounted above your screen. This will hopefully avoid the USB-UIRT's blaster conflicting with your IR distribution blaster.

2. Disable the USB-UIRT's blaster. You can do this by using the 'zoning' feature of the USB-UIRT. You will have to select Zone 1 in your Girder commands that transmit IR, which should output to the rear emitter jack only (Zones 1 and 2 are the two stereo channels of the emitter jack, while Zone 3 is the front IR blaster).

-Jon