Speaker remote control

[Cicero]

Would it be possible to use a remotely controlled light dimmer switch (NOT wired in to lighting circuit) as a remote volume control for powered PC speakers?

Tia,

Cic.

[RubberBiker]

The short answer is - no.

Google how dimmers work.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Cicero explained :

Not any chance at all.

One solution, which I have on my knee right now, is a wireless keyboard. Most of these have volume up/down/mute (plus many others) keys and if you get a 2.4GHz version it should work at 10m range. Some combine (as mine does) a both wireless keyboard and wireless mouse set.

[mick]

No. They work on a completely different principle (not like the variable resistor that you appear to be expecting).

I wouldn't recommend trying to adjust PC speaker volume with a variable resistor at the speaker end anyway. The amps aren't designed to handle it.

[Cicero]

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Thanks, all, for such succinct replies!

A wireless keyboard and mouse isn't an acceptable solution for my purpose. I'm putting together a package using two set top boxes - Virgin Cable / Satellite Freeview. Both of these are to play through two separate TV tuner cards in a spare PC. Everything is going to plan except that the remote control on the Virgin box doesn't operate the PC volume control; the satellite box remote does, but only one box will be switched on at a time. I'm looking for a more compact way than a wireless keyboard to solve the problem, hence my enquiry about remote switches.

I'll take another look at the cabling as this appears to be where the problem lies.

Cic.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

No.

IIRC, Vellerman do a remote controlled attenuator. Or perhaps Jaycar.

[Cicero]

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Thanks for the information - filed for possible future use.

Extensive 'mixing and matching' with various cables finally produced the required result.

Cic.