You are definately on to something Zero. I really like the idea of milling a piece of smoke/black transparent plexi. Obviously, the only thing holding me back is finding someone to do the fab.
Anyone have a trustworthy fab shop?
Here is a few pics of my test case (please ignore the haphazard drilling as this is only a test case). As you can see the IR LED's are easily seen. I would like to have some type of insert that will hide the IR recievers, similar to the case button on the far right.
Wow, those pics...
I am a terrible artist plus I wouldn't even know where to begin to diagram this out.
Basic premise is I drilled to 1/4" holes through the front of my case. Mounted to IR recievers inside my case. Now I can turn on my HTPC and navigate my XBMC front end using an MCE remote without any...
I am going to drill two holes in my case that will hide two IR recievers (one for my MCE remote and one to power on the PC from completely off). I did a test drill in another case and the bare hole doesn't look "finished". So I was thinking that I need some type of insert to make it look more...
Sorry, the mobo doesn't use an ATX power supply. It is fed power via an external laptop-type power brick. The power is connected on the mobo by two cables and that is it. So I will have to use the first comment if I want to get it to work.
I am not sure if I should put this in motherboard section or power supply section, so I guess I will start here.
Anyway, I bought this product:
http://www.shop.perfecthometheater.com/product.sc?productId=26&categoryId=2
to turn on my PC using a standard MCE remote. And here is the...
Zefram0911,
I have the same board and reciever as you so maybe you can clear something up for me. I reencode all my BD's to MKV with lossless flac audio using eac3to.exe. In XBMC (my htpc frontend), I can bring up the video and audio codec informatio and see that the audio is flac 48000Khz...