Hi, I have recently received my IRTrans and it (with iRed) is working great. I now want to connect it to my existing Xantech based IR distribution and I'm not clear on the connections.
On the Xantech there is the 'serial bus' with the following connections:
A. +12VDC
B. Ground
C. Status
D. IR In
Plus the 3.5mm outputs which typically have IR emitters connected:
E. IR out -
F. IR out +
On the IRTrans I have the following connections on the mini-DIN connector:
1. Ground
2. Supply Voltage
3. Data I/O
4. +5V stabilised voltage
5. Relay 1
6. IR out +
7. IR out -
8. Relay 2
If I connect 7 to B and 8 to D. Then I can send signals from IRTRans on to the Xantech bus. Which is half of what I want. But I. struggling to get the IRTrans to recognise signals out of the Xantect.
My expectation was that I could place an IR emitter from the Xantech on the IRTrans and that would just work. But it doesn't The IRTrans does not see the signals, which I don't understand. If I use an IR blaster then the IRTRans will see the signal, but this is less than optimal because I may get stray signals.
So my question is, can I connect E & F directly to the IRTrans? If so, where??? E to 1 and F to 3? I don't want to break anything...
Thanks in advance.