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Gaming Console Extender Solution

The console stays in the living room. A receiver in the bedroom or study drives the TV or monitor and takes the keyboard and mouse, so picture, sound and control all reach the other room. The TX and RX modules ship pre-paired and link on power-up, over 5 GHz wireless or, if the house already has network cabling, over the home network.

Living-room console, bedroom TVConsole on a study monitorGaming on another floorKeyboard and mouse from the next roomSwitching between living room and bedroom
PAIN POINTS

Pain Points

01

Running HDMI through walls

Getting from the living room to the bedroom means going through a wall or two: chasing a channel, routing through the ceiling or tacking cable along the skirting. Long HDMI runs are fussy about cable and connector quality, a poor one flickers or drops to black, and the wall never looks quite the same afterwards.

02

Picture arrives, controls don't

Ordinary wireless casting only sends the picture. The keyboard and mouse stay by the console, or you add a separate wireless set whose receiver sits a couple of walls away and keeps dropping out mid-game.

03

Different screen, wrong output

The bedroom monitor and the living-room TV support different formats. If the console sets its output for the wrong screen, or cannot read the remote display at all, you get a black screen, no sound, or a resolution forced down to 1080p.

04

One HDMI port, two rooms

The console has a single HDMI output. Once it feeds the transmitter, the living-room TV goes dark, so switching rooms means unplugging and replugging cables, which wears the connectors over time.

SOLUTION

How We Solve It

Console
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TX Box
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Bidirectional
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RX Box
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TV + Pad

5 GHz across rooms, or over the network

TX sits at the console, RX at the bedroom or study screen. Pick the wireless tier from the real distance: roughly 30-100 m, 100-300 m or 300-1000 m. If the house is already wired, the built-in 100 Mbps Ethernet PHY lets the link run through the router or a switch.

Keyboard and mouse plug into the RX

USB keyboard and mouse plug into the receiver and travel back over the link. The console sees them as local USB devices, no drivers needed. Picture, sound and control share one link, so there is no separate wireless set fighting through the walls.

Full EDID pass-through

The RX reads the real EDID of the bedroom TV or monitor and hands it back to the console, which sets its output for that screen. That avoids black screens, missing audio and forced resolution drops. HDMI audio travels with the picture, and plugging headphones into the RX switches audio to them.

HDMI loop-out keeps the living room live

The 4K30 module has HDMI loop-out built in (up to 4K30), so the living-room TV and the remote screen both show the game. The 4K60 module has no loop-out of its own, but adding an HDMI splitter chip on the carrier board gives 4K60 loop-out. No more swapping cables.

KVM + low latencyWall penetrationRoom to room
SELECTION

Selection & Design Notes

  1. Choose the 4K60 or 4K30 model to match the console output. Range tier does not limit resolution; every tier runs 4K60.
  2. Through-wall links are not line of sight. Walls, antenna placement and enclosure material all eat into the reference range, so test a sample on site before fixing the tier.
  3. To keep the living-room picture, use the 4K30 module's built-in loop-out, or reserve an HDMI splitter chip on a 4K60 carrier board.
  4. 4K60 TX and RX have different pinouts and need separate carrier boards. 4K30 TX and RX share one pinout and can use the same board.
  5. VBUS is 3.7-5.1 V and anything above 5.1 V damages the module. Size the adapter and carrier-board supply to that window.
FAQ

FAQ

Q1Can I plug a game controller into the receiver?
Confirmed support covers USB HID devices such as keyboards, mice, touchscreens and barcode scanners. They plug into the RX and appear to the host as local USB devices, with no drivers. Game controllers have not been verified yet, so please test any other USB device on a sample first.
Q2Will a longer or through-wall link drop me to 1080p?
Distance does not lower the resolution. The model sets the resolution and the transmission method sets the range, independently, so every range tier runs 4K60. The range figures are line-of-sight references; walls, antenna placement and local interference affect real range, so confirm with a sample.
Q3Does the end user have to pair anything?
No. TX and RX leave the factory as a paired set and link automatically on power-up. The end user connects the cables, powers up and plays, with nothing to configure.
Q4Can you build the console extender as OEM / PCBA?
Yes. We design the boards to your form factor, interfaces and range, handle ODM development and PCBA production, and offer white-label OEM; or buy the modules and design the carrier yourself. Validate link, range and picture with the ATE946X-KIT before prototyping.

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