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Hauppauge IR

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aName
Posts: 9
Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:31 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by aName »

Hi Stefan,

Yes the remote works fine with WinTV.

So I will need to dig into it much deeper this weekend.

Thanks for you're help so far, Regards, Michel.....
aName
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Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:31 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by aName »

Stefan,

Do I need to copy irremote into a eventghost directory.
At the moment it is in the wintv directory.

Regard, Michel...
Prinz
Plugin Developer
Posts: 194
Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:58 am

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by Prinz »

Hi Michel
aName wrote:Do I need to copy irremote into a eventghost directory.
At the moment it is in the wintv directory.
No, the plugin get the dll from the installation path of the ir remote software. I think the plugin has found the dll, otherwise another error message appears.

Regards
Stefan
Mein HTPC:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU: Intel E5200
OS: WinXP SP3
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB
TV-Cards: 2 * Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C, Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C
HTPC software: DVB Viewer / EventGhost
aName
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Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:31 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by aName »

I have moved the tv-card to a different PC and installed the software from the PC and I have the same problem.

So it must be the tv-card causing the problem.

When I start IR.EXE I get the following message "Found IR controller (e2)".

Regards, Michel.....
aName
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Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by aName »

I can get it to work if I execute the HauppaugeIR for the second time.

But how can I get Event Ghost to do that automatically.

Regard, Michel.......
Prinz
Plugin Developer
Posts: 194
Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:58 am

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by Prinz »

Hi,

what do yo mean? Do you have enabled the plugin twice?

Is the message "Found IR controller (e2)" an error message of the ir.exe?

Regards
Stefan
Mein HTPC:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU: Intel E5200
OS: WinXP SP3
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB
TV-Cards: 2 * Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C, Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C
HTPC software: DVB Viewer / EventGhost
aName
Posts: 9
Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:31 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by aName »

Hi Stefan,

I don't know if it is an error message but I find it a bit strange to get this message. I hoped you would know what it means.

When I start EventGhost it will start HauppaugeIR and I will receive the error message's. When I right click on it afterwards and select the option execute it works. I found this by accident a real programmer's solution. ( eg if it doesn't work we will try it over and over again :D )

It means that I will always need to execute the HauppaugeIR plugin manually.

Regards, Michel......
Prinz
Plugin Developer
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Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by Prinz »

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Mein HTPC:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU: Intel E5200
OS: WinXP SP3
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB
TV-Cards: 2 * Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C, Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C
HTPC software: DVB Viewer / EventGhost
Prinz
Plugin Developer
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Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by Prinz »

Hi Michel,

sorry I have seen that I'm using a newer version of the plugin. In this version I have set the timeout to 15s (instead of 5s). I think I had a similar problem, otherwise I haven't increase the timeout.

Could you try the new version?

Regards
Stefan
Mein HTPC:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU: Intel E5200
OS: WinXP SP3
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB
TV-Cards: 2 * Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C, Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C
HTPC software: DVB Viewer / EventGhost
aName
Posts: 9
Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:31 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by aName »

Hi Stefan,

This worked !

Thanks for all you're help, Regards, Michel.........
franjorge
Posts: 2
Joined: Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:47 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by franjorge »

Hi,

Just wondering if it is possible to use a different remote than the one that comes with the card, I mean, use the card's receiver, but another remote and then configure EventGhost to handle the events.

Thanks,
Fran
Prinz
Plugin Developer
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Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by Prinz »

Hi,
franjorge wrote:Just wondering if it is possible to use a different remote than the one that comes with the card, I mean, use the card's receiver, but another remote and then configure EventGhost to handle the events.
I'm not sure, it can be working.

You could try it. If the IR-Receiver is detecting the IR-Signals, but the remote control is unknown, the event string will contain the code of the key.

Regards
Prinz
Mein HTPC:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU: Intel E5200
OS: WinXP SP3
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB
TV-Cards: 2 * Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C, Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C
HTPC software: DVB Viewer / EventGhost
franjorge
Posts: 2
Joined: Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:47 pm

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by franjorge »

Prinz wrote:Hi,
franjorge wrote:Just wondering if it is possible to use a different remote than the one that comes with the card, I mean, use the card's receiver, but another remote and then configure EventGhost to handle the events.
I'm not sure, it can be working.

You could try it. If the IR-Receiver is detecting the IR-Signals, but the remote control is unknown, the event string will contain the code of the key.

Regards
Prinz
Thanks for your reply.

It does not seem to work. I have been reading a bit about IR remotes and it seems that Hauppauge IR receivers can only process signals from RC5 remotes. Sadly enough, it looks that none of the remotes at home uses RC5 :(

Thanks again for the reply.
Prinz
Plugin Developer
Posts: 194
Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:58 am

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by Prinz »

Hi,

that's right, the IR receiver of the Hauppauge TV cards does only support RC5 remote controls.

Regards
Prinz
Mein HTPC:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU: Intel E5200
OS: WinXP SP3
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB
TV-Cards: 2 * Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C, Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C
HTPC software: DVB Viewer / EventGhost
ilan5555
Posts: 5
Joined: Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:28 am

Re: Hauppauge IR

Post by ilan5555 »

hi all,
I've installed Eventghost latest version and I'm working with Hauppauge PVR 150 remote control.
I've also downloaded the iiremote.dll from this forum.
I don't use the load ir at startup.
Don't know why, each time I add the Hauppauge plugin I receive this error message:
"Couldn't start the Hauppauge remote control"
Don't know what to do.

Can someone help?

Thanks

Ilan.
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