Hot Link Pro Remote Control Booster System ( 8225P )

Turbo Charge Remote Controls with Hot Link Pro, Remote Control Booster Systems. Get high performance remote control repeating! Hide Hot Link's Super Sensitive IR Eye for enhanced performance up to 70 feet for six IR controlled Home Theater A V components, even in enclosed cabinets! Eye does not have to be direct line of site and can be hidden behind a cabinet, speaker grill, CRT, Plasma or LCD TV, in a door slot, toe-kick or closet trim. Even works with equipment and IR Eye located in the back of your home theater room! Enhance the beauty of your home with Hot Link Pro to send IR commands to enclosed cabinets and closets. Closing doors from inquisitive fingers helps to keep children and equipment safe. Men, your partner may not appreciate your decor of black anodized aluminum AV Gear being the centerpiece of your home. And when the phone rings in the kitchen, the mute button may not always work. Now it will with Hot Link Pro. And it will help get you out of hot water and maintain the peace. And if you've got kids, well, you know how much stuff can be crammed into a VCR door.... Closing doors from inquisitive fingers helps to keep children and equipment safe, from each other! Hot link Pro is "System Transparent" adding the benefits of closed cabinet doors and distance enhancement with NO remote attachments, NO batteries, NO antennas or boxes that have to sit on your coffee table. The entire system hides inside your cabinet and gives you greater freedom to roam with your remote control. The new and improved Hot Link Pro HF repeats the higher 60 Khz carriers and is more sensitive than our previous model. Comes with Confirmation LED for received remote commands. 1-Year warranty and first class customer service. Get Remote control roaming freedom and enhance the beauty of your home theater with Hot Link Pro! Accessories available, Eye Extension Coax Cables 3 to 25 feet, Eye with "Y" for adding home automation or adaptive living access IR inputs.

Everything is working flawlessly. It was easy and the included instruction sheet did the trick. I think the only tough part was realizing/believing how sensitive the receiver eye is. I would not normally believe the signal could be received where I have the eye located so there's no interference from the 52" Sony XBR4. But it operates every time. It's perfectly controlling a Motorola VIP-1200 from AT&T U-verse, which two different Xantech units (one specifically designed to operate without interference from CFL/LCD noise) couldn't reliably do. It's also controlling a Sony 550 Blu-ray player and a Sony 820 AVR. Clearly this product does what's promised and what a competitor's product couldn't do. This is a GREAT product with immediate and personalized support -- no canned e-mail responses and no voicemail hell. There's a real person out there who's eager to help.

I bought this product to allow me to hide all the gear in a closed cabinet. It works exactly as I expected. The blue LED that illuminates when IR signals are received is also VERY helpful - you now have feedback that your remotes IR signal was received. It makes all the remote responses "snappier". I have a plasma TV and I installed the received on the wall just under the lower edge of the TV - works perfect - no evidence of "plasma interference". If I have to do the same thing in the bedroom, I will get a second one of these, it is the solution. Except for pulling wire, it took only a few minutes to set up.

great product, easy to set up. this product was exactly what i needed because all of my equipment is in a cabinet with no line of sight.

From reading the reviews, it cannot be stressed enough that the IR sensor is very sensitive. The manufacturer's website mentions that the 37" Sharp LCD is an issue regarding placement of the IR Sensor. I have a Sharp LC-4264U which seemed to flood the sensor whereever I placed it. The only place the sensor was not being flooded was a cavity in the back of the LCD but then aiming the remote became a game. I have my TV on a counter above 2 cabinets with a wall behind. You could bounce the remote signal off the back wall and it would work about 50 percent of the time. Keeping the sensor un-shielded, I placed it between the seam of 2 cabinet doors, under a kickplate and above a lip of a shelf with no success. What worked for me was to wrap the sensor in 1 layer of electrical tape. Try 2 layers, if the IR noise is too much. Another thing that I noticed was that the sensor would adjust itself when being flooded by IR noise and eventually the blue LED will go dim. If the Blue LED is lit, your remote may work and it may not. Use tape and place the sensor toward the user. With tape, the blue LED will be on solid for about 3 minutes once the TV powers on and then it will go dim and the remotes works great.

I installed the Hot Link pro and it works...more or less. It is very sensitive to interference, the cabinet contains an array of low voltage lighting and the power (or the supply) fully jams the IR side, with the lights off the Hot Link works better but still exhibits erratic sensitivity! Sometimes it works from 30 feet other times we must go stand if front of the detector before it will operate. I had to add some shielded coax to extend the 6' detector lead, that may have made the interference somewhat worse. It is inexpensive but I don't recommend it!