car said:Most recent useful wireless feature I got was a socket set that switches on and off from a remote control. aldi had them before xmas but I believe B&Q do them. Basically means I can control all sockets in the house (got 4 recievers in the set from aldi) from a small remote. Handy when going to bed or switching on the heating from the bed in the morning!!
Car it looks like you have a lot of time/money on your hands
Most recent useful wireless feature I got was a socket set that switches on and off from a remote control.
What frequency do those devices operate on? Hopefully not 2.4GHz which may clash with your wireless LAN?car said:Yeah, Ive got mine about a month and one of the sockets is prone to a bit of sporadic switching on/off as well, but its only done it a couple of times. I have a suspicion that one of the neighbours has one of them too and is on the same frequency. But the remote has a 40 meter range so it could be picking up anything.
How do you hook the laptop up to the TV?car said:Got an old laptop with a wireless dongle under the TV for web access on the TV
car said:Yeah, Ive got mine about a month and one of the sockets is prone to a bit of sporadic switching on/off as well, but its only done it a couple of times. I have a suspicion that one of the neighbours has one of them too and is on the same frequency. But the remote has a 40 meter range so it could be picking up anything.
There was an S video cable in the ALDI TV/computer pack. My laptop has an SVideo out port. I had 2 ways to connect to the TV, my TV had an S-video in port on the side, but the ALDI pack had a scart connector which took audio and S-Video. Using that, I could have hooked the audio from phono out on the laptop so I would get the laptop sound on the TV but as I mainly use it for music I ran that to a spare channel on the (bog standard) home cinema system to get surround sound. Again, the ALDI pack had a single phono to L/R for this.How do you hook the laptop up to the TV?
I would not have thought so. Most that I've seen have one (SCART) with the odd one having a second SCART and/or some other AV input(s) (co-ax, S-Video etc.). Higher end TVs are more likely to have more inputs. Maybe that's what you mean? Of course an external SCART switcher could be used but unless it is remote controlled the user will have to get up to switch it manually (a shocking idea I know!car said:Most TVs have 4 or 5 AV channels
The PC would presumably need a SCART or RF video out to connect to the AV sender unit? I'm not sure that most have these. Will such a connection work simultaneously with the normal VGA monitor output?A casual flick on to the PC one now and again would keep a parent happy I suppose.
They seem to have them in every few months - I think one of them had them before Xmas. I bought the Lidl ones last year and (bar dropping the sending unit on the floor and breaking the AV antenna which now flops about a bit - need to try supergluing it ...) they work fine. I've taken care to put them on AV channel D as far away from my wireless LAN (on 802.11 channel 1) to minimise interference between the two since they both share the 2.4GHz band. My microwave is also at the other end of the 802.11 channel spectrum so is more likely to interfere with the AV senders than the LAN but since it's only used sporadically it's not a major issue.I havent seen the PC to Tv senders in aldi/lidl, must keep the eye out. Would be interested.
I've had mine in for the last 5 years using X10. Great system, very cheap for what you are getting (about 50 euro per switch you want to control) and very reliable. I have every light in my house, all my heating zones and a number of appliances working off X10. THere are more technologoes comming out along the same lines, including RF gear like Z-Wave, but X10 is way above them at the moment as it is well established, both functionality wise and price wise, with some great software and hardware available to operate it. The Aldi stuff sounds like something thats not going to be in use for long if its as problematic as the posts say, I know maplin sell similar stuff also, but the problem is its not as versatile.Diddles said:Car it looks like you have a lot of time/money on your hands
Best one I saw was a heating system that was controlled by mobile phone.Its probably old technology now though.
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