IR receiver

[jmsgld]

Building a Raspberry Pi Media server and want to be able to use my Harmony remote to control it.

I'm using a pretty standard component IR receiver : Vishay TSOP4838 (https://www.vishay.com/docs/82459/tsop48.pdf).

My question is about mounting it. The RasPi box is grey plastic approx 1mm thick. Presumably I need to make a hole in the box for the receiver to see the remote? I assume that the part that needs to be seen is the hemispherical lump on the receiver, and that If I drill a hole of similar diameter and mount that lump in the hole it should work?

Thanks, James

[jmsgld]

Anyone?

[TonyRPH]

jmsgld said:

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I assume that the part that needs to be seen is the hemispherical lump on the receiver, and that If I drill a hole of similar diameter and mount that lump in the hole it should work?
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Yes, but the width of the beam reception might be slightly affected.

Ideally you want a hole a fair bit larger than the blob, or get the blob as close to the edge as possible to maximize the beam acceptance area.

[jmsgld]

Great, thanks for the help. The beam angle will only need to be fairly narrow as the AV stuff all sits in the corner of the room with sofas on the opposite 2 walls.