Re: Serial IR receiver problem

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4659ca4f.270980875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:
>
> >I've never heard of true USB interfering with a COM port.
>
> It may be that the Skype software is taking control of the PC's hardware
> timer and that WinLirc also needs the timer.

I thought he said he had moved the Skype adapter to another computer - a
laptop IIRC, and that the problems still continued.  That tends to rule out
USB device contention issues if the LIRC is on one PC and the Skype adapter
on another but it's very likely I didn't read him correctly.

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Bobby G.