Re: IR Hardware Not Detected Error as well

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Jaime;3058541 Wrote:
Nothing has changed in Media Center. It has always required that you
have a
IR Receiver plugged in to the PC to configure if you are using a Set
Top
Box.

The only way you will not get this, is if you are using direct analog
cable
(i.e. coax plugged right into the tuner card). If you don't have the
receiver and IR blaster, MCE would have no way to control the box to
change
the channels.
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Thanks Jaime. You're right, I am using a coax cable and it's probably
plugged straight into the tuner card. I'm not terribly au fait with
the terminology so please bear with me. This is the PC I bought today

http://www.aldi.co.uk/images/data_product/858224483469758ad6e56f.pdf
I'm not too sure what an IR receiver or blaster would be. There is a
TV remote which zaps something which plugs into any old USB socket in
the PC. Are these what you are referring to? I am trying to use them.
But I'm not using the built-in tuner as I haven't figured out how to
use it. I'm just testing to see if I can get any TV program up and
running.I've got Sky TV - the signal goes through a booster up to the
loft where it is split and fed into various rooms into coax sockets.
What I've done is use a coax cable to connect the TV to one of these
sockets. I've found the signals in various channels when working my
way through the wizard but I fall down on the last step where the
system tells me there is no IR hardware.

I understand from another post elsewhere that this is because the
remote is not the official Windows MC hardware but a generic model.

Do you have any suggestions as to what I ought to do?


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