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(More customer reviews)Not only is the price right, but there really isn't any competition on the market for a device like this. Most of the products are RF controlled. My specific application required it to be IR controlled. I have two LCD tv's in our lobby at work that both run video continuously from two WDTV devices. These are being controlled by automation software called Girder on our server. It basically sends a series of IR commands through a device called USB-UIRT to turn everything on in the morning and off at night. The reason I need this IR outlet is that I have a third monitor that does not have an IR receiver which I also want to turn on in the morning and off at night.
The first thing you will notice is that this device does not come with instructions. To program it to operate, follow these four steps:
1. Plus the device into an outlet.
2. Press the button once to turn it on. A red light will turn on and stay solid.
3. Press and hold the button until the red light starts to blink.
4. Press and release the button on the remote (not included) that you want to use to turn the device on and off.
Issues:
1. Once you get the device in learn mode where the red light starts to blink, you only have a few seconds to program the device before it gives up and turns off.
2. Do not hold the button down on the remote or the device will only work intermittently. This is probably because the circuitry is cheaply designed. When you hit a button on a remote, it sends out a sequence of IR impulses. Most remotes will repeat that sequence multiple times if you hold the button down. This device doesn't seem to be able to identify and filter out the duplicates and therefore stores everything that it sees as if it were one sequence of IR impulses. In other words, it will expect to see those duplicates every time you use the remote and if it doesn't the device simply will not operate. Long story short, hit the remote button briefly so that the remote only sends the sequence once.
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