Re: Control my PC with a remote control via a USB IR ?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

What "IR USB Receiver" do you have?

For hardware, I suggest you look at USB-UIRT.

     http://www.usbuirt.com/

I think they have links to compatible software. They also have a forum where
you can ask your question.

antoine.leblanc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am trying to control my ACER laptop with a remote control.
>http://www.pcremotecontrol.com/ seemed to do the trick just fine, you
>can even program it to "convert" your remote control signal to whatever
>you want the PC to do (pause button of the remote = hit space bar, for
>example) but somehow it only seems to work with Infra-Red receivers
>plugged into the serial port.
>
>Sadly my laptop does not have a serial port, I only have an IR USB
>Receiver which seems to work fine, except
>http://www.pcremotecontrol.com/  does not recognize it.
>
>Do you know of software that would do what
>http://www.pcremotecontrol.com/ does, but with an IR USB receiver ? Or
>do you have another suggestion ?
>
>Thanks
>Antoine


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