Hauppage IT blaster & Starchoice

[algernonhess]

Newbie here desperate for some help re: my remote. I did read through each post on the site related to remotes and problems with Hauppage remotes and their IR blaster but still am at a loss.

First, here is my set-up. I'm using a hauppage PVR 500 MCE (it came with a remote and an IR blaster) under XP SP2. Everything works fine except the remote.

Read the post related to "hcwIRblast.dll won't load in Live TV" and took sub's advice to use the no IR blaster setting in the Capture set-up.

The Hauppage remote (I suspect it is the 34 button one, since its silver and I looked at the picture of the 45 button remote on the Hauppage site, and it definitely doesn't look like that one) works to control the main GBPVR gui (eg: I can scroll through the menu items and I can select and enter the various options (like LiveTV or TVGuide etc) but once inside (particularly Live TV) I have no remote control capability (except for being able to exit) ON the Channel guide screen, I can scroll the channels etc, but the actual channel displayed under LiveTV does not change (obviously the IR blaster is not sending a signal to the set top satellite receiver (Starchoice).

When I set up the Hauppage 500MCE card, the CD only seemed to have the drivers on it (there was no Hauppage card control software, nor any IR Blaster software on it).

I'm looking for direction as to getting the remote working under LiveTV and with the ability to change the channel on the external via the supplied IR Blaster transmitter and receiver. Someone willing to hold my hand through this? Please?:confused:

[sub]

There is no built in support for the type of IR Blaster included in this MCE remote receiver/blaster combo. You'd probably be able to get it working using HIP or Girder (third party software). If you use the forum search feature to search for HIP, you'll find some discussion about using the MCE IR Blasters. This should apply to the hardware you have.

The IR Blaster from this bundle is a different beast than the one included with the PVR150, which GB-PVR does support.

[algernonhess]

Thanks for the starting point sub. I'll begin my quest.

[algernonhess]

Sub, I checked all the posts and searched everywhere there are references to Hip and Girder. I now have copies of both, but I'm at my technical limitation to understand how to make this work.

I guess I'm posting this as a call to anyone out there who could assist me.:eek:

[sub]

Sorry, I dont use either of these, so I cant give you detailed instructions. Maybe someone else here will be able to help you out.

[ricklous]

I'll give you a hand if i can, i got HIP set up to control my Set top box using a MCE 2005 IR blaster.

what point are you at at the moment? same as your first post?

[algernonhess]

Thanks, for the offer, I'll definitely take you up on that. Getting over this last hurdle is key to me being able to deploy the media centre and PVR functionality (my domestic supervisor has a low tolerance for "complexity"

I am stuck now at the point where I need to get the remote control to be able to (through GBPVR) select the program that I desire to watch or to record via the channel guide, and having that selection change the satelite box tuner via the IR Blaster.

Let me know what information etc that I can provide to help you less onerously help me. Thanks a bunch.

[ricklous]

no problem.

im actually rebuilding my machine after a hardware problem i had, and in the process im updating the HIP setup. Writing a little guide as i go so when its done i'll post it.

something you can check while im writing the guide, is what type of IR codes your Starchoice uses. some boxes use 'toggle codes'. see the 'Parity bit' section on this page for technical information and you might be able to find out about your particular set top box from there.