I have had a powermid IR repeater for a couple of years and everything
has worked well. Unfortunately things stopped working reliably last
week.

Basics first
1. All of the remotes work correcdtly with the devices involved and I
replaced tht batteries for good measure.
2. I set up a test environment, IR reciever close by the IR
transmitter.  The ReplayTV and General Instruments cable box work fine
with the apporpriate remotes but when I try to use those same remotes
through the PowerMid, they don't work.

I bought a replacement PowerMid thinking that might be the problem but
it doesn't work as well.

Do I have an interference problem? I don't get excessive blinking on
the powerMid units so

On the basis that you are located in US, the used RF frequency is 418 Mhz.

If you added recently a device using the same frequency, interference could
occurs .

Hope it helps

Thierry
"Ian" <ian_journeaux@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have had a powermid IR repeater for a couple of years and everything
> has worked well. Unfortunately things stopped working reliably last
> week.
>
> Basics first
> 1. All of the remotes work correcdtly with the devices involved and I
> replaced tht batteries for good measure.
> 2. I set up a test environment, IR reciever close by the IR
> transmitter.  The ReplayTV and General Instruments cable box work fine
> with the apporpriate remotes but when I try to use those same remotes
> through the PowerMid, they don't work.
>
> I bought a replacement PowerMid thinking that might be the problem but
> it doesn't work as well.
>
> Do I have an interference problem? I don't get excessive blinking on
> the powerMid units so