I've spent the last day hunting around the web trying to find how to get my remote to interface the way I want it to, but have not been sucessful. I have an Outlaw 990, a Harmony 1000 universal remote. I also have a Motorola DVR/Cablebox, a Sony DVD, a Sony 400 Disc Cd Jukebox, and a Sony HD TV, a Rotel RB-1050 driving the fronts, and a Rotel RMB-1066 driving the remaining channels, a Sony tape deck and a Sirius receiver.

The Harmony remote works just fine, it controls everything quite well. What I want to do however is take advantage of its RF capabilities to be able to control everything without worring about line of sight, or distance. That is actually easily remedied with the Logitech RF extender. The RF extender will receive the RF signals, transalate them into IR and pass the signal onto IR flashers to stick onto the face of the components. That solution is fine for the Tape Deck and the Sirius receiver as they do not have rear IR input jacks, and they are actually behind a door so they will not be seen. I do not like the asthetics of pasting the IR flashers to the front of the various units. Espcially the T.V. as the wiring for the flasher will be very visable, due to the location of the IR reciver on the front. So what I want to do is use the rear IR inputs on the 990, the CD player, the T.V., the Motorola DVR/cable box, and the DVD player. I understand from browsing older topics on this forum that the 990 needs an interface module, a Xantech 794-10 to be able to receive input to the IR jack. I'm sure I can find one online. But that is only half of the problem. From the best I can tell the Logitech/Harmony RF extender only outputs a IR signal to a flasher, there does not appear to be an option to use a mono plug for direct IR input. So question #1, does anybody know if the RF Extender supports that option, I've looked extensivley at the logitech web site and reviews of the Extender and this option isn't mentioned anywhere. Question #2, regardless of the RF extender's output what kind of input does the Xantech 794-10 need. Can I connect a flasher to it from the I.R. extender or do I need to route it through another "module" to get the signal to the 794-10? Question #3, to connect to the other components, again assuming the RF Extender does not have a mono jack output option, what do I need to have to connect to the IR jack inputs? I'm assuming Xantech or another company has a device of some sort that will let me translate those IR signals to a hard wired IR jack. If so what is it? I suppose another option is to use the blaster capability of the Rf extender. I could hide it behind the system (there is plenty of room out of sight) and let it brodcast to a Xantech or other IR receiver that would then connect to the 794-10 to connect to the 990, and otherwise have at least 4 other hard wired mono jacks for rear IR input.

I am aware that this is all a bit complicated, but I do not want to run any flashers to the front of the system. It took me a lot of time and effort to get it set up the way it is, and I like the way it looks and so does my wife. So out of sight, and out of mind needs to be accomplished. I also am aware with the Rf extenders blaster function that I can place in front of the system and it will do the job. Again it's an asthetics issue. I have no place to place it in front that is unobtrusive. If the other solutions here are simply too complicated or too expensive, I suppose I could mount the blaster (assuming it's mountable) to a corner in the room with decent line of sight to the equipment, but that's a last resort. I'm not sure how happy she would be with that option. Sorry for the length of the post, but I didn't know how else to expalin it all. Thanks for the help.