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This Next Generation RF extender thing works just fine through an outside wall. It's about 40 feet from my grill to where the flying saucer sits, and I've never had a problem with it working, provided the batteries were charged. ;-)

By far, the most expensive and difficult part of my whole setup was adding the IR receiver to the Outlaw. It would have been perfection if the flying saucer could output a signal directly to the Outlaw, but that didn't seem to work. I don't know why, but it didn't, so I had to buy an IR receiver, a controller board, and power supply to take inputs and position the IR receiver to capture the signal.

One year later, I'm writing this and contemplating getting a universal remote to handle the second zone tasks. I've ordered a Harmony 550, which takes AAA batteries (very convenient since my existing second zone uses this type of battery and transmitter) and I'm hoping that the two play nicely together so I can now utilize the 550 to do things like change radio presets, pause and change the CD tracks, and potentially switch to internet radio or DVD sources without me having to leave the grill or guests outside.

I'll update the blog when I get this working (or if it doesn't work) in case anyone is interested.]]>Mar 31st 2008 2:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/04/next-generation-remote-control-extender-review/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/04/next-generation-remote-control-extender-review/Apr 16th 2008 4:15AM