tech@rentron.com wrote:

>>Can you get toy remotes? it might be possible to modify one of them
>>with the real "guts" as the wnner. I'm thinking along the lines of
>>someting aimed at the very young.
>>
>>RP
> 
> 
> They have a TV with its own working remote. This will be mailed out with the
> others. One person (the winner I assume) will receive the working remote.
> 
> The others will not work with the TV, and end up being throw aways after
> the promotional gig.
> 
> Toy remotes would work, but they need to be non-branded, have room for
> a silk-screen logo, and have an LED that lights when a button is pressed.
> 
> I don't think it matters what they look like, or even if they're IR for that matter.
> 
> They intend to mail these out, have customers stop by, and try the remote
> they received on the TV to see if they're the winner.
> 
> I had a link to a manufacturer in HK or Taiwan some years back that had some
> excellent deals on non-branded IR transmitters, but darned if I can find it now.
> 
> Regards,

So basically you only need a 'fake' remote with a non working LED.
Only the 'real' remote will emit IR, presumably modulated.

If you use 'real' IR remotes, what's to prevent someone from reconnecting
the non-working LED, or to figure out what brand of TV is used and 'fake it'.
e.g. use a hidden universal remote (even held by someone else in the room)
to make it look like the 'dummy' remote works?
I am pretty sure the geeks here could make a ring sized remote that could
transmit a perfect replica of a big brand TV IR signal.

Robert
(to make a system secure, you have to think like a crook).



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