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Author Topic: Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?  (Read 5130 times)

Zephyre

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Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« on: June 09, 2004, 07:39:53 am »

Can I make use my standard IRDA USB Dongle (Sigmatel) as remote control for Media Center? How?

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Re:Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2004, 08:32:32 am »

There is a plugin for Girder that allows it to use a standard IrDA dongle for receiving remote signals. It's not officially supported, but you could give it a try.
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Re:Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2004, 09:51:00 am »

I'm already interested by something like that, I have a sitecom one
( http://www.sitecom.com/products_info.php?product_id=28&grp_id=1 )
and none of the standart plugins i tried several months ago were able to make it work... :(
So with some tweeking you can make it work paste a note here...  ;)
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Re:Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2004, 12:31:44 pm »

On the girder site you can read :
"...IrDA Devices are not suitable for remote control purposes...There is a slim chance that your IrDA device will work with Girder 3.0."

The link they provide for the plugin is broken, but this one should work :
http://users.skynet.be/johnny666/Infos/Ir/Girder/IrDA.dll
(There's a page in french related to it : http://users.skynet.be/johnny666/Infos/Ir/Girder/Girder-irda.htm

This plugin works only with girder 3.0 (not 3.2 or 3.3), I'll try but I'm septical...
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Re:Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2004, 01:16:44 am »

So, does it work?  ?

I search everywhere but cannot found Girder v3.0.
Can someone point me the URL?
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Re:Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2004, 08:43:22 am »

Girder 3.0 is no longer available for download. When Girder went from free to shareware/trialware (a move I have no problems with - it's well deserved) all older versions were taken down. Anyway, using IRDA is not gonna work reliably, you might as well get a cheap CIR (consumer IR) receiver of some type. Period.
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Re:Remote Control using standard IRDA USB Dongle?
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2004, 06:43:45 am »

I looked into this quite a while ago before buying an IRMan (serial port version). Apparently, a standard IRda port is not as sensitive as a "proper" IR remote receiver, or it uses a slightly different wavelength or some such.

I could not get remote stuff working reliably in any way using Girder 3.

I gave in and spent the bucks on the IRman...

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