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alternative to Rii mini-keyboard but with better range?

  • 19-07-2013 12:07pm
    #1
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking for something similar to a Rii to control my windows HTPC.

    rii-remote-20100305-600.jpg

    i've had 3 of them now and have been generally happy with the size/versatility of them, but since moving house, my HTPC is in a cupboard under the stairs and neither the 2.4ghz wireless or Bluetooth Rii have sufficient power to reach the receiver without periodically dropping out (only momentarily) meaning keypresses are missed, or get stuck down and repeat.

    not a huge deal when it means you get a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrepeated keypress, but a major headache when you open a video file and the HTPC tries to open 50 copies of the same one and grinds to a halt, needing a reboot. :eek:

    it's only about 20 feet and a plasterboard wall, but it seems to be just a little too far for the Rii, so any thoughts on a replacement?

    thanks in advance. :)


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  • #2
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    could the receiver for the Rii be brought from the HTPC closer to the sender? If otherwise happy with the Rii that is what I would look at first.


  • #3
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    everything is in a small room (about the size of a hotpress) under the stairs, with the tv/living room directly next to that room, so there's a plasterboard wall between where the Rii is used from and where the HTPC is and the door to the press is on the opposite side to where the tv is.

    i got one of these yokes which takes care of the volume controls on the AV amp and the Sky HD box, but controlling the HTPC is sketchy at best. :(


  • #4
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    So a small hole through the plasterboard wall and the receiver for the Rii on an extension cable might do it?


  • #5
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    So a small hole through the plasterboard wall and the receiver for the Rii on an extension cable might do it?
    it probably would if it wasn't a rented house. :D


  • #6
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    vibe666 wrote: »
    it probably would if it wasn't a rented house. :D

    Get creative :D:D


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  • #7
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    i was half thinking i might get enough of an improved signal if i used a USB extension lead and taped it higher up on the wall inside the press where it meets the tv room.


  • #8
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    vibe666 wrote: »
    i was half thinking i might get enough of an improved signal if i used a USB extension lead and taped it higher up on the wall inside the press where it meets the tv room.

    The next best thing to coming through the wall ;)


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