Infrared Remote contol over Cat5

[Seymour Butts]

I recently wanted to be able to watch my Foxtel IQ in our Media room as opposed to the Dining room where the IQ is housed.
(Bigger screened TV in the media room where I like to watch sport)
I ended up having installed a HDMI cable installed between the two rooms.
I have an HDMI splitter at the IQ location with two outlets, outlet one to the dining room TV and output two, to the Media room TV.
This setup works incredible well but as you may imagine we still have to walk back to the Dining room to change channels.
When we had the HDMI installed, I also had the cable layer run an extra 2 CAT5 cables between the two locations, this was because at the time I thought I might use a ATEN VE800A HDMI extender but found in the end the unit wasn't required over such a short run, so the CAT5 between the rooms is currently unused.
Whilst the rooms are essentially next to each other and it's a less than 20 meter HDMI run it really doesn't lend itself too well to wireless because of the house internal layout and some previously installed electronics.

So my question becomes, is it possible to run an infrared extender over CAT5?
I've seen setups like this one but wonder about all the extra inputs, I would far prefer 1 In and 1 Out (send and receive) or am I being too simplistic ??

Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers


After a little googling, perhaps will do it

[mtv]

A lot of IR extenders don't work with Foxtel remotes/receivers as they operate at different frequencies.

Make sure whatever extender you purchase is designed to work with Foxtel devices.

[tristen]

A friend built some units a few years ago and had an Hills home automation system installed in most rooms to provide TV, audio, telephone and LAN facilities.
The system allowed remote control of TV using the normal IR remote control units through IR Emitter and Wired IR Target modules.

Perhaps you could investigate whether the modules can be adapted for use with your current set up. I don't see why they can't.

I have uploaded a file, 2013-CATALOGUE-Hills Home Hub.pdf to , hoping that it might be useful.

[Seymour Butts]

Thanks guys,
I ended getting one of this morning from Jaycar
Works a treat
Cheers