IR relay for receiver

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I have a Denon x2000, which is still going great. I've recently built a cabinet which it now lives in, and the remote signal won't penetrate the very thin door. I didn't expect it to, and didn't anticipate a problem, as usually pressing the Sky button on my sky remote (sky box also in cabinet but have an IR relay already for that) would trigger the receiver to change to the CBL/SAT input, and volume control is also done via the sky box. So no need to use the AV remote for most daily uses.

However the sky button no longer triggers the AV input to change. I don't really want another cable for another IR relay if I can help it, but do I have any other choice here? If I do go for this, is it simply something like this that plugs in? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infrared-R...49412&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=ir+extender&psc=1
 
IR Eyes such as the one you've linked need power from somewhere, and they need something to generate the pulses to flash the IR signal. Short answer then is no, it won't work.

What you could try instead is an IR Extender over HDMI that piggy-backs it's signal on to an existing HDMI cable.

At one end you have an IR Receiver which catches the signals from the Denon remote. It then feeds that in to a convenient HDMI cable via a small add-on adapter. At the other end of the HDMI cable inside the cabinet there's another add-on adapter and attached to that is a fly lead with an IR Transmitter on the end.

Google it. As soon as you see it it'll make sense.

Okay, now the caveats.

* If you're using ARC then this solution probably won't work
* These don't work through and intermediary device such as going from the TV through the amp to say a Sky box in the cupboard. They only work top-n-tail on one HDMI cable
* It could interfere with 4K/UHD operation
* The device pinches power from the HDMI socket, and HDMI was never disigned to support peripheral devices such as HDMI switches/splitters/IR repeaters
* They're built to a price and sold to folk who are looking for a "cheap and easy" solution with the minimum install fuss. That means the quality and reliability can be a bit hit or miss

Personally I'd recommend going with a proper IR Relay kit; either a USB-powered single eye solution (LINK) or a hub box powered from a wall wart transformer and that hosts 4 or more IR Repeater eyes (LINK or LINK), and that way control never interferes with the image/sound/control or ARC features of HDMI.
 
I didn't understand -
sky remote, via (dedicated rf output) IR extender was selecting avr CBL/SAT input, but no longer does this with the Denon boxed in ?
if it no longer works, the conclusion is that the sky remote was also speaking to the denon ? why ?

Parents sky(Q) remote causes tv to select the sky input because tv is told to respond to (sky) hdmi input's 'activity', does the denon not have a similar switch.?
 
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