[mythtv-users] Questions about WinLIRC

Karl Dietz dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
Sat Nov 30 07:26:50 UTC 2013


On 30.11.2013 08:00, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Craig Huff<huffcslists at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Just starting to catch up on a serious backlog of Mythmail and saw a message
>> about WinLIRC.  I hadn't heard of that before and had a question, if someone
>> could be so kind as to clue me in.
>>
>> Would this work if I plug an old USB IR Tx/Rx device in to my Win7 laptop
>> and match it with the Microsoft media center IR remote that came with its
>> own Tx/Rx (not something I want to lug around with a laptop on travel)?  If
>> it affects the answer, the old USB IR device was originally for IRDA
>> communication with a Palm PDA.
>
> I believe CIR (ie TV/MCE remotes) is a different format to irda. I'll
> leave you to google both terms and find out more.

It appears to depend on the specific chipset in the dongle and the
answer is most likely "no" at the moment.

http://www.lirc.org/irda.html

Regards,
Karl


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