Oups !... Updated !

Great work! I tried your dll and it work perfectly also with default driver. I'm not a c++ expert, I prefer .NET so I wrote a wrapper. I would like to do a plugin for MCE so user can turn on/off TV or Home Theather automatically or custom action choosing it into a html page.

Can I go forward?

I'm here to share my work and I'm very glad you want to use it.
Just let me know when your plugin is ready for testing it !

I promise to make no comments about the GUI (and in any case, I would not want Girder to look better than Hip).

I wish all projects I worked on were completed so quickly and were so much fun (a great example of the WORLD wide web at work)!!

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Click here for HIP, the free alternative to control your PC via remote control

has anyone gotten the driver to work with this id

USB\VID_045E&PID_006D ??

the USB device is listed as: EHOME INFARED RECEIVER

 

i changed the driver inf file to allow it to install but it keeps me a "recording error" when I try to record remote keys.

 

This is the original MCE remote, not the new 2K5 remote.  does this driver work with the original remote?  using SP2.  drivers install properly.

hi!
many thanx to BZR for his excellent driver/dll.
there is just one problem:
when using the original ms-driver, it seems that some commands are handled twice (up, down, left right...). is there a way to tell the original driver that my application has handled the command? perhaps returning a special LRESULT value?
anyway if i'm using the BZR driver, all works like expected.
thanx in advance.

I'm in the same boat as foolio. I haven't tried it yet but I have an older MCE remote/xcvr.

@foolio:
I think you are the first trying to record IR with this product_id...
Hum... it looks like data are packed differently with this receiver.
Can you try to run my very first command-line tool http://burningzeroad.free.fr/MceIrCmd.rar
MceIrRec -o C:\Test.IRK -v
-v option will produce a beautiful data dump !
Then paste it here and I will see what I can do for MCEIR_V1 owners...

@awx:
This behavior is "normal"... MS driver generates keyboard input so if your app also send keyboard events when receiving IR key... you'll get 2 keystrokes ! This is the reason why a BTMI like software should prefer "my" driver to ensure keystroke dispatching to applications...
Can you explain us what you are trying to do ? There should be some workarounds...

Hi BZR,

I'm in the same boat as foolio also. Looking forward to trying any solutions though!

One question, using the USBUIRT you have the ability to transmit to a different "zone". This allows you to add an additional ir blaster to an output. For example, if you have to DishNetwork recievers in a cabinet, each with a blaster attached directly to the front ir window, you could individualy control each one even though they share a common output.

Is this possible to do with your driver/plugin/program? (which is it- driver, or plugin, or program?)

Thanks for all the hardwork. This has got me really exited over the possibility of using this!

 

-PGPfan

I seem to be running into a problem using your plugin & Girder.

Whenever I try and "learn" a command Girder never picks up the IR code. It just sits there "Waiting for IR code".

I have the MCE 2005 remote, and have loaded your plugin into memory. I even disabled all my other plugins to make sure they weren't causing any overlap.

Is there anything I can try?

Thanks!

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Both blasters will always send the same signals (by hardware design).
If you have 2 DishNetwork to control and if they are not the same brand and it should work : IR codes include a vendor id (and sometimes product id) then a key code so when receiving IR codes a DishNetwork first checks its vendor id matches the one contained in the IR signal. This way, only one will take the blasted IR into account. The same way as if you were using a remote in front of both DishNetworks...

Sooooo now the BIG question:

1. Can we hook into any universal IR code library so we do not need to relearn all the codes?

or

2. Can we figure out a way to share codes, so we quickly can build up a shared code library?

Establish a convention for file names: example: Toshiba_SE-R0014_ON.irk  

What say ye all?

 

I have started going through my home equipment, and have found that some work and some don't.  I have a Fischer CD player with remote control REM-1500 that doesn't work for instance. 

I also found that the transmit distance for the IR blaster is only about 8ft (2.5m).  I would like to extend that.

Does anybody have any helpful suggestions on these points?

A. 

Hey BZR:

 

i tried that command:

MCEIRREC -O TEST.IRK -V

it gives me an error message:

"useage for Ir Recording test:

-o [s] where s is the output file
Record failed !"

No verbose log is generated.

 

sorry BZR:

here is the error log - thanks for trying to get this to work


Attempting to open \\?\usb#vid_045e&pid_006d#ms0me99l#{00873fdf-61a8-11d1-aa5e-0
0c04fb1728b}
FAILED to open \\?\usb#vid_045e&pid_006d#ms0me99l#{00873fdf-61a8-11d1-aa5e-00c04
fb1728b}
Failed to GetUsbDeviceFileName
Error 0 opening Pipe01

what do you guys think about creating a MCE menu item or GUI within MCE for controlling this thing?

For example you could have another power button up in the top left corner for your TV or a macro for turning your theatre equipment on.

Or am i the only one who thinks this could be a good idea?
Cheers