First off, here is my setup. I have a dedicated theater
room with a AV closet outside the room. I use an RCA
IR to RF (to IR) wireless extender which takes the IR
from my Harmony 880 in the theater, converts to RF and
the receiver in the AV Room receives the RF and converts
it back to IR. I have the receiver connected to a block
that has 6 IR blasters/emmitters plugged in and each taped
to the front on my different devices (receiver, hd cablebox,
DVD player). It works perfectly...that is it worked perfectly
until I wanted to add a HTPC. I purchased an lite-on
keyboard and IR receiver initially and it worked perfectly
with Theater Tek to control the HTPC from the theater.
At that point I decided to go with MCE and purchased
the MCE remote, keyboard, and IR receiver. That's where
the happy story ends. The RCA device does send a signal
out from the Microsoft remote and/or keyboard and I see
the Microsoft IR blasters that came with the setup flash
bright red outside the theater when the keyboard or remote
is used and I even see the M$ receiver flash as it receives
the signal...yet nothing happens on the HTPC. If I go
outside the theater and aim the keyboard at distance right
at the IR receiver, MCE controls perfectly. Via the RCA
ir to rf to ir extender...it doesn't work.


My guess is that something gets 'lost in translation'
and the IR code that the RCA device spits out isn't being
recognized by the Microsoft IR receiver.


Anyway, I wanted to get some input as to what the problem
is and what I can do to get it working. Can I run a wire
with some sort of small receiver and flasher on the other
end that will work with the MCE receiver?