EventGhost

I just went thru hoops to avoid the HDPVR's remote IR port. I tried it on two different Windows 7 systems (32 and 64bit) and found it to be painfully slow and can interfere with reliable recordings. Best thing to do is blind the IR port with black electrical tape and, in my opinion / experience, for ...

Bingo!

I retried the emulate keystroke and this time I didn't have the slow response problem. Not sure why it was slow when I tried it earlier.

Anyway, emulate keystroke fixed the premature suspend problem. Win 7 32b is treating the emulated keystrokes as real keystrokes and resets its idle timer ...

Shoot. I was starting to suspect that. To bad the documentation is so sparse.

I wonder if an emulated keystroke will work? They're too slow for remote navigation buttons, (I tried alternate method too) so it'll have to be something not used often (and to avoid wasting a button, a Sage keyboard ...

I'm also having the premature suspend problem since I started using EG to handle the remote commands for Sage.

I tried adding 'reset idle time' actions to some macros for remote buttons that would normally be used (stop, pause, "directions", ok).

But adding the 'reset idle time' did not resolve ...