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Definition

When you push a button on one of your remote controls at home, a short burst of infrared light is emitted from it (normally from the top at the front of the remote). This short burst of light contains information about the button you have pushed. When this light reaches your source device (sky box, Apple TV etc) it is interpreted and the function of the button you have pushed (stop, play, pause etc) will be performed.

This type of control is “line of sight”. You have to point your remote control at the item you want to control (normally a source device like a sky box). It cannot pass through cupboard doors, through walls etc.

When your source device isn’t in “line of sight” you can use an IR passback system to take the bursts of light from your remote control from one place to another.

This passback of control is normally from where you sit to watch TV, to where the device you want to control is kept.

It’s called passback, because remote control commands are passed back to the device you want to control. A basic system has three parts, something to receive the bursts of light and interpret them, something to then repeat the burst of light out in front of the device to be controlled and the thing in the middle that connects these two.

For example, our IR over HDMI kits contain an infrared receiver, an infrared transmitter and they use a HDMI lead to connect the two.

Types of passback

Blasting IR

IR blasting is where an infrared transmitter is positioned in front of a device (or devices) to be controlled and simply repeats out every burst of light sent to it. Typically, multiple devices are controlled by one infrared transmitter. It can also refer to a situation where multiple IR transmitters, all plugged into the same IR passback device (a HDMI matrix for example) emit the same codes as each other at the same time.

Discrete IR

Discrete IR refers to a particular situation where multiple IR transmitters are connected to a HDMI matrix, but each transmitter is numbered. The numbers will correspond to the inputs on the matrix and each transmitter is placed in front of the source device plugged into the same numbered input. i.e. IR transmitter one is placed in front of the device plugged into input port 1 on the matrix. The IR control commands from each of the displays plugged into the matrix are then routable. This means that if TV 1 is watching input 1, IR transmitter 1 will be emitting the codes coming back from TV1. If TV 2 is watching input 2, IR transmitter 1 will not be emitting the codes coming back from TV2. What this means in practice is that you can have two identical devices plugged into a matrix, such as two sky boxes, the channel will not be changed on both boxes at once. You only have control over the device you are watching. So you can only change the channel on the sky box you are watching. With blasting IR, both sky boxes would have their channels changed.