Re: IR Hardware not detected
- From: Nigel Barker <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:47:57 +0200
On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:42:00 -0700, Raven Mill <RavenMill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think that many people aren't understanding some things here; including me.
I have a custom built PC with Windows Vista Ultimate x86 installed.
Everything works fine. All my USB devices work properly. I have an ATI 750
TV tuner card in my PC. I also have an ATI remote control for the TV tuner,
which I don't use because my set-top box requires using only channel 3 as the
source, but it's there and works fine for everything else. I have a cable TV
set-top box. It has a remote control, which is the one I use to change
channels on the cable box. There is nothing else connected to anything. My
cable box doesn't have a usb port or any such thing for pluging anything into
it other than the coax from the wall and the video/coax/svideo out to the TV
or tuner card.
On XP Pro, (Not MCE, just normal XP Pro) and everything works fine. The TV
card and remote work fine using ATI's media center software to watch TV.
The drivers for the TV tuner card seem to install onto vista properly.
What we're asking here is why we need some extra remote control device here.
(since we already have 2 of them. 1 for the set top box and 1 for the PC.)
Why do I need an additional piece of hardware, which, as far as I know none
of my equipment has anywhere to put it anyways?
I know the tuner is working fine because in the media center setup it scans
for channels and finds the signal just fine. (It even plays the signal in
the little box in the setup.)
The issue is that Media Center needs some way of changing channels on an external STB so that TV
recording can be done unattended. Without the official Microsoft USB IR Receiver/Remote/IR Dongles
package you have no way of achieving that so Media Center will not complete setup of a STB without
that. It's only $30-35 works well & is the tool designed for the job.
--
Cheers
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP
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