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Your cart is empty. Extend your remote's reach with this two-piece system from X10. It can transmit your remote's signals through walls, floors, and furniture. It's perfect for folks who want to conceal their A/V gear inside a cabinet or closet for a clean, stylish look. And with its 100-foot range, Powermid is also a great option for multi-room audio/video systems.
Simple to set up and use
Getting started is a snap. First, plug the transmitter into a standard power outlet, and place it in a location where you can comfortably aim your remote - beside your television, for example. Next, plug the receiver into a standard power outlet, and position it in front of the audio/video components you want to control. Once you've set up both units, you can send commands to your gear through using a multi-brand IR (infrared) remote control. You probably already have some of these around the house, from your TV, DVD player, cable box, or other common A/V components.
How Powermid works You could have two remotes operating at the same time, etc. However, the biggest problem with the PowerMids is not interference at the transmitters, but rather at the receiver - which has a propensity for picking up signals that it shouldn't (close by Wifi devices, nearby TVs, phones, etc), and creating IR noise that both prevents the repeater from working, but it can also make controlling the TIVO within the same room impossible (the TIVO sees too much IR signal and stops accepting any of it).
Tom L. Huffman
2025-04-07 15:38:58
I don't usually write product reviews and when I do it is to complain about something. However, I felt that I just had to report my experience with this product. It worked exactly as advertised!I placed the transmitter on a bookshelf in my home theater and the receiver on an equipment shelf inside a closed small room when all of my components reside. There were three aspects of the performance of the Powermid that surprised me.First, it is extremely responsive. There is no apparent time lag between pushing a button on the remote and the component response.Second, it was incredibly easy and fast to setup. It took less than five minutes.Third, I didn't have to do anything special in terms of aiming or placement of the receiver. I just placed it on a shelf in the room and all of my components respond. This is probably because my components are in a small room where the IR signal reflects off of the walls and bounces around.If I had to offer any criticism at all it is that you must aim the remote directly at the transmitter. Its reception of the IR signal seems quite narrow. However, this is nit-picking.I really admire the simplicity of this product. The transmitter converts the IR signal into a radio frequency, which can pass through walls, and then the receiver converts it back to IR and sends it to the components. This all happens in a fraction of a second. Compared to some other products I tried and/or investigated, this one is superior by a whole order of magnitude.
Steve - Broadcast Engineer
2025-03-05 17:53:46
I am totally impressed with this remote control extender. I have used the other types that use an IR receiver and you tape the repeater device on the front of your equipment. They work, but only if you put your electronics in a closed cabinet in the same room. I wanted to get the clutter of my electronics out of the room so that I would only have a wall mounted HDTV in the room with no cables showing.I read the reviews on this Powermid Remote and thought I'd give it a try. My surround sound system, DVR/Cable box, Blu Ray, DVD recorder, and 3rd DVD players are all hidden away in a credenza in a bedroom with an HDMI switch and single HDMI cable that I ran through the wll to the TV set. I was concerned about this working with the equipment closed up in a small cabinet with the face of the equipment very close to the door which practically blocks the IR sensors. I'm happy to say it works flawlessly even in that situation. It even allows me to hook up the DVR and Blu Ray player to my bedroom TV too without paying the extra monthly cost to the cable company. Set up is easy, in fact really nothing to it. Place the transmitter unit in the room you want to sit in, and the receive unit (the one with the antenna), near the equipment to control. They plug in so there's no batteries to worry about. It's that simple. One unit works with all of my remote controls. I've had no trouble with any of the devices I'm controlling.I had to laugh at the reviewer who said the top is sharp and he worried about his kids til I opened the box and touched the top. He was right.. they are sharp.I would not hesitate to buy another one if I needed more. It is extremely good!
RAUS
2024-12-03 11:43:42
This 1 star review is for the unit shipped to me on 4/6/13. I would give the unit I brought last year 5 stars.Even though the model number on this new unit is identical to the unit I bought last year, this is a similar looking, but totally different product. It is incompatible with older units. Customer Support at X-10 thinks it may be a counterfeit product made by a third party. It will not work with older units even though the model number for the set, the receiver, and the transmitter are the same as the model and part numbers on the older units.This product has a short antenna on both the transmitter and the receiver. This looks terrible. The older unit only had an antenna only on the receiver. This product also has external power supplies on both the transmitter and the receiver. This makes them hard to plug in. The older unit has internal power supplies and a standard plug that is easy to plug in.Most importantly, this unit will not work with the older units. The unit I bought last year worked perfectly with a unit I bought ten years ago. This unit does not work with the older units even though the model numbers and part numbers are identical. They must use a different frequency.The unit I purchased last year came in a box with four color printing on the whole box. This new unit came in a small plain white box with a sticker on it.If this is the only one of these you need, it will probably work. However, compared to the old units, the new units feel flimsy. Therefore, I do not know if I would trust the quality.If you need one of these to extend a current system, this will not work.
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