Not sure which forum to post this in, so I'll start here and see if it gets moved.
Here's the situation:
We have a gas fireplace in our living room/den area. The fireplace is built out from the wall, and the built out area is more or less hollow. Above the fireplace was a hole for a TV. Unfortunately, it was a big square hole, and doesn't work well with a widescreen TV. Additionally, our new TV is too big to fit in the hole even if we wanted to use it.
I have done demo on the hole and will be framing it out and putting wall board over it so the new TV can be mounted straight on the wall. I am intending to knock a new hole on the side of the built out area and add some shelving to hold components (cable box, Mac Mini, maybe a stereo receiver, etc.), but this will put them out of the line-of-sight for remote controls.
Can anyone direct me to what I would need to be able to change the sensor location for the components that use remote controls? I'm pretty sure there is some sort of radio transmitter that you can program to work with your remote controls, but I'm not sure I'm finding the right things online. If anyone has any experience with this or can direct me to a forum where they might know, I would certainly appreciate it.
If any of the above is unclear, please feel free to ask questions. And Mods, feel free to move this to whatever forum you deem appropriate.
Thanks!
Here's the situation:
We have a gas fireplace in our living room/den area. The fireplace is built out from the wall, and the built out area is more or less hollow. Above the fireplace was a hole for a TV. Unfortunately, it was a big square hole, and doesn't work well with a widescreen TV. Additionally, our new TV is too big to fit in the hole even if we wanted to use it.
I have done demo on the hole and will be framing it out and putting wall board over it so the new TV can be mounted straight on the wall. I am intending to knock a new hole on the side of the built out area and add some shelving to hold components (cable box, Mac Mini, maybe a stereo receiver, etc.), but this will put them out of the line-of-sight for remote controls.
Can anyone direct me to what I would need to be able to change the sensor location for the components that use remote controls? I'm pretty sure there is some sort of radio transmitter that you can program to work with your remote controls, but I'm not sure I'm finding the right things online. If anyone has any experience with this or can direct me to a forum where they might know, I would certainly appreciate it.
If any of the above is unclear, please feel free to ask questions. And Mods, feel free to move this to whatever forum you deem appropriate.
Thanks!