Tube-Style IR Receiver (IR-350)

I have a few of these in different rooms of my house, since I share cable boxes, Tivos, and IPTV devices between all my TVs. They work great, and Buffalo's tech support is awesome. I had a problem with the first one I installed. One call to Buffalo's tech support, educated me on what I was doing wrong and gave me a couple of pointers that have made all future additions work flawlessly.My system has been in use for about 10 years, with additions to the system 2-3 times in between. I've never had a problem with any of the components from Buffalo IR.In comparison, I purchased a cheaper system at one point just to allow me to keep the doors to my entertainment cabinet closed while using the remote. It NEVER worked. I replaced it with Buffalo components and haven't had a problem since.

Like a few of the other reviews, I too was having trouble with noise. I tried all the different filters with no luck. I finally grabbed some tin foil and wrapped the base and that solved the problem. It seems to have a shielding issue. I used my on a control4 system. I ran a few blasters out in my network cat5 to tv's around the house and went to add one more when I reached the limits of the HC300 blaster output.

As others have stated my Plasma TV generates enough IR noise that it overwhelms the sensor in this and keeps the signal from reaching the gear its intended to control. It comes with some filters to put in front of the sensor that severely limit its range to the point where it just didn't work for me. If you have a LCD or Plasma TV there's a good chance this may not work for you. Mine is going back :(

I purchased the IR-350 IR Repeater, the IR-100 Receiver, the DV9-500 Power Supply, and four IR-E1 IR Flashers and installed in the oak cabinet that houses my home theater components. The repeater worked only intermittently and without any discernible cause for its random failure. I did ultimately determine that the greatest cause of interference was the TV itself - not helpful. It's worth pointing out that the interference was not reflected light but radio noise.Another nit would be that the installation instructions are poorly written and Buffalo's website offers nothing more.I purchased these items from Home Controls and they have been fair and square with me about it. I'm just sorry I invested the effort and drilled a hole in my cabinet. And, yes, I tested the unit before drilling the hole.

It works as advertised, but is easily confused in the presence of bright fluorescent lights. It comes with a darkened lense cap, but that reduces the accuracy of the detection. It also comes with small filter disks to insert behind the clear lense, but those also reduce the accuracy of the detection. I ended up removing the bright fluorescent lighting from the area, and the problem went away.

Bought a complete system, repeater, flasher, and control...installed in a TV cabinet where the bottom closes up behind doors (where my A/V receiver is). Drilled a hole in the top of the cabinet above the TV and installed the IR350 repeater...hooked up to the IR receiver and ran a flasher eye to the front of my A/V receiver and another one to my Directv box. Works flawlessly. I have also installed a similar system in my living room on my big home theater....it works great too. I do have an issue occasionally where the repeater won't flash - I would say this happens once or twice a year, so in that case, I have to manually turn on the A/V receiver - no big deal for the other 363 days a year when it works fine. For the money, it's a huge convenience to control all of the hidden equipment behind closed doors.

It is a 12v system. The 5v system I'm using work work with it. This is not noted anywhere. It does receive.

This didn't work at all with a Samsung LCD HDTV and an HD TiVo. The TV created interference that overwhelmed the IR sensor and generated too strong a signal in the IR flasher that the TiVo wouldn't accept. I could get it to work intermittently by wrapping the IR flasher in paper to degrade the signal, but then it wouldn't work for the first minute after turning on the TV. It also wouldn't work if I pointed the remote directly at the IR receiver. I had to point it off axis to make it work.After talking with an infrared hardware expert where I work, I instead purchased a XANTECH 49085DKit LCD-Proof Designer Micro Link Infrared Kit, which is specifically designed to filter out interference from LCD TV's and compact fluorescent lights. It works perfectly no matter what direction I point the remote, and I'm a lot happier now.I recommend buying this instead:XANTECH 49085DKit LCD-Proof Designer Micro Link Infrared Kit