<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Depends. IR needs some visibility, although as Joe said, usually work through smoked glass. RF needs none, but your devices need to be able to accept it. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I've got a repeater that receives an RF signal and then transmits an IR signal to the components. It can work behind solid doors. The placement of the repeater signal transmitter is tricky on some devices. It has to be "just so" over the IR receiver on the device. <br><br>John<br><ul style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 2em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not, then it's not the end.</span></li></ul></div><div><br>On Oct 6, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Joe Johns via Woodworkers <<a href="mailto:woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org">woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Smitty wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#000000" vlink="#000000"><div class="m_8356528138844216061WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">I’m building a TV cabinet. I want to put the cable box, Blueray, etc. in a lower cabinet behind glass. Anybody know how frosted, smoked or textured you can go and still get the remote to work on all of the devices?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">I used smoked on the unit I built - nary a problem.</div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Joe,<br></div><div>The Twisted Knot Woodshop, "There's never been a classier joint"</div><div>Visit the Twisted Knot Woodshop - <a href="http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com" target="_blank">http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com</a></div></div></div>
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