[mythtv-users] Please recommend a IR receiver that can wake from suspend-2-ram

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Sun Mar 16 16:35:43 UTC 2008


> For several years I had been using a IRA-3 infrared receiver and had
> been quite happy with it. When I was building my new box a few months
> back, I did a bunch of research into different IR receiver options.
> One of the features that was important to me was the ability to wake
> the machine from suspend to ram via the USB port. After looking
> around, I had seen several people say they were happy with the
> USB-UIRT, and the myth wiki mentioned that the device could wake the
> machine from suspend.
>
> However, after getting the USB-UIRT, I have been quite unhappy with
> it, for a number of reasons
>
> 1) The wake from suspend feature doesn't appear to work under linux (I
> had a thread about the issue about a month or so back).
>
> 2) The device seems to be much more finicky about the direction the
> remote is pointed. With my IRA-3, I could point any of my remotes at
> the opposite wall and the IRA-3 would still detect it fine. With the
> USB-UIRT, some of my remotes still work fine like that, but others
> need to be pointed directly at the receiver (I've replaced the
> batteries and it's still a problem).
>
> 3) Configuring the USB-UIRT with irrecord is very problematic. I had
> to repeat the process many times to get it to work. It kept telling me
> there was a problem when I tried to record certain buttons. Other
> buttons would occasionally give me that error and then work other
> times. With the IRA-3, everything I tried had always worked on the
> first attempt.
>
> 4) Most importantly...the USB-UIRT just died on me after only 2
> months. The red light is stuck on, it won't receive any input, and
> neither linux nor windows can detect the device.
>
> Since my research failed me the first time, I thought I'd ask for
> first hand experiences with other receivers. Waking from suspend via
> the USB port is a must have feature for me (if it weren't, I'd still
> be using my IRA-3), so please don't bother recommending anything that
> doesn't support it.
>
> --
> Ron
This works for me.
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=005774&cid=PE.829



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