Anyone found a good water proof RF remote?

ericmedley
ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
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Hello all,
I'm planning on putting a water proof RF remote in a pool and/or Hot Tub to give the user some basic controls (Volume up/down, mute, system off)

I'm looking for something that will output RS-232 commands that I can grab and use.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance.
ejm
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  • jjames
    jjames AMX Sustaining Engineer
    RTI has one called the U1. We use the T2+ with AMX RF codes for a cheap AMX solution for bedrooms, guest suites, etc.

    http://www.rticorp.com/products/u1.shtml
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  • ericmedley
    ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
    jjames wrote:
    RTI has one called the U1. We use the T2+ with AMX RF codes for a cheap AMX solution for bedrooms, guest suites, etc.

    http://www.rticorp.com/products/u1.shtml

    Thanx!

    From what I see we'd need:

    U1 Waterproof controller
    CM-232 Serial Communication Module
    RP-6 Remote Control Processor
    Theatre Touch Designer Software

    This would essentiall enable me to take a button push from the U1 remote and have the RP-6 output some kind of hex string of my choosing to an RS-232 port on AMX and then do thus and so...

    OR

    can this remote speak directly to an AMX wireless reciever?

    is so?
    If so..
    thanks so...
    much
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  • KennyProgram
    KennyProgram AMX
    I cannot say for sure about the U1 specifically but,

    The RTI T2+ and RTI T1 remotes (with approriate firmware and AMXRF codes from RTI),

    Can communicate directly to an AMX AXR-RF (433Mhz).

    I don't see why the U1 wouldn't be able to do the same.
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  • jjames
    jjames AMX Sustaining Engineer
    I'll second what Kenny said. That's what we do with the RTI T2+; we get the AMX RF reciever and have the NI-x000 controll whatever it needs. A word of caution: you CAN have two RTIs talk to one AXR-RF and control two rooms, but just make sure they're not two rooms that would be used at the same time. The RF reciever can't distinguish two presses at once. Also - watch out for RF interference - we had a security system that was using RF and that frequency was 431Mhz and it was very noisy - messed with the RTI.

    Anyway - hopefully all this helps and let us know what you wind up doing.
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  • alexanbo
    alexanbo Junior Member
    The U1 does work with the AXR-RF 433, just need to make sure you have the correct version of firmware loaded on it.

    So the equipment you'd need would be:
    U1 remote
    AXR-RF 433, and an axlink connection between it and your master controller.
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  • ericmedley
    ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
    Thanks folks! You've been very helpful. A waterproof remote sure beats an old fashioned blade switch breaker for controls in the pool/hot tub. :)
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  • stcox01
    stcox01 Junior Member
    one more thing

    One more note getting the U1 programmed. You must call or e-mail RTI tech support to get the "special" codes, as well as a bug fix for their TheaterTouch editing software.
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  • yuri
    yuri Junior Member
    i dont know if its allowed, but i have the firmware + the amx rf codes for RTI remotes... Let me know if i should post them, but you shouldnt have any problems getting them from RTI too :)
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