Thread: Range on the IR board?
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Re: Range on the IR board?
ours works from across the room (maybe 20 or 30 feet... even with stuff between our remote and sensor)

it mainly depends on your remote. i had an old remote to an old tv that would work even with a hand over the ir emitter and the remote pointing in the wrong direction. sadly the remote was lost and i couldnt find it.

my recommendation is go to a local goodwill store and buy a few remotes. thats what my team did. The first remote we tried wasnt usable with the ir board so we had to go back and get a new one (the goodwill was near our build space)