2006-09-06, 01:21 PM
Preface:
Well - I'm in a place I'm quite happy with my setup (and so is the wife). It is quite basic and simple, but it answers our needs and habbits (at least for now). Except tweaking here and there, it's stable.
There's only one piece in the puzzle that keeps moving: The Hauppauge remote control. I saw other people complaining about it here, didn't ever see a true resolve.
The known issue is that sometimes the Hauppage Remote (or more correctly the IR reciever or IR software) sends the wrong keystrokes to the running software. People have complained about moving up/down in the guide - actually it can happen with any repeated keystroke (can be right,right,right, and when you send left, you get another right).
I know someone said they asked to replace the remote itself, but I know this will not solve it either. Sometimes, after a repeated keystrokes, even using another remote in the house(?!?!?!) sends the last keystroke again. This removes the remote itself (or GB, if anyone had any doubts) from the list.
Yes, I am running the ir.exe in a higher than normal priority (I even run it now as "Realtime". it helps a bit, still happens).
Solution:
So, instead of trying to fix it, I thought I'll just ditch the remote part of Hauppauge.
Now, mind you I'm using a laptop, so only USB (or possible PCMCIA) solutions will work.
I was thinking of just buying a remote/reciever piece. What do you recommend? IR? RF? Obviously, something that has known support with GBPVR...
Well - I'm in a place I'm quite happy with my setup (and so is the wife). It is quite basic and simple, but it answers our needs and habbits (at least for now). Except tweaking here and there, it's stable.
There's only one piece in the puzzle that keeps moving: The Hauppauge remote control. I saw other people complaining about it here, didn't ever see a true resolve.
The known issue is that sometimes the Hauppage Remote (or more correctly the IR reciever or IR software) sends the wrong keystrokes to the running software. People have complained about moving up/down in the guide - actually it can happen with any repeated keystroke (can be right,right,right, and when you send left, you get another right).
I know someone said they asked to replace the remote itself, but I know this will not solve it either. Sometimes, after a repeated keystrokes, even using another remote in the house(?!?!?!) sends the last keystroke again. This removes the remote itself (or GB, if anyone had any doubts) from the list.
Yes, I am running the ir.exe in a higher than normal priority (I even run it now as "Realtime". it helps a bit, still happens).
Solution:
So, instead of trying to fix it, I thought I'll just ditch the remote part of Hauppauge.
Now, mind you I'm using a laptop, so only USB (or possible PCMCIA) solutions will work.
I was thinking of just buying a remote/reciever piece. What do you recommend? IR? RF? Obviously, something that has known support with GBPVR...