I have been using MCE 2005 for a while now. I have 3 SDTV tuners and 1 HDTV OTA tuner. I am currertly thinking of switching from my lame cable service to dish or directv. Haven't decided which yet. What I would like to do is hook up at least 3 STB to my MCE via the S-video and right-left audio jacks. I guess the question here is can I have more than 2 IR- Blasters connected to MCE and control 3 STBs?

 

Scott

I really vaguely remember seeing a thread on this, and can't remember what the answer was

Hurricain101:

I have been using MCE 2005 for a while now. I have 3 SDTV tuners and 1 HDTV OTA tuner. I am currertly thinking of switching from my lame cable service to dish or directv. Haven't decided which yet. What I would like to do is hook up at least 3 STB to my MCE via the S-video and right-left audio jacks. I guess the question here is can I have more than 2 IR- Blasters connected to MCE and control 3 STBs?

 

Scott

 

I will dig up some stuff but yes it is possible.  The first way to do it is with 2 different STBs and a dual IR cable, 2 ir blasters on one cable.  The second way is convincing 2 IR blasters to work together, first setting up 2 STBs on one then unplugging and plugging in 2 more, then plugging the original one back in.

Now when you say use two dual IR cables are you referring to plugging them in to the Window Media Center IR receiver? If so that would be a problem. Also if I could use two diffent Windows IR receivers that would be good to. Since I have two of them now after buying mulitple tuner cards. I am curretly running 3 SDTV cards and one HDTV card in Windows MCE 2005.