Fix for IR trouble with Hauppauge remote and dual tuner cards

[jrolson7]

Went to dual tuner cards, a PVR 350 and PVR 150mce, so I could watch a program while recording another, and maybe get PIP. I quickly found out that that the Hauppauge ir.exe would no longer load, and so the remote was useless. There is a fix however, you can find it here:
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/archive...-2579.html

My version of the batch file ended up looking like this:
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@call devcon disable PCI\VEN_4444*DEV_0016*SUBSYS_88010070*REV_01*
@start f:\progra~1\wintv\ir.exe /quiet
@cls
@echo .
@echo The ping you see scrolling below is simply a wait designed to give IR
@echo ..
@echo a chance to start and verify it can work.
rem @pause
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 -w 1000
@cls

@echo thank you
@devcon enable PCI\VEN_4444*DEV_0016*SUBSYS_88010070*REV_01*
start f:\progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrtray.exe
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It DOES get ir.exe working again, however a message box pops up when ir.exe loads. Haven't figured out how to supress that yet. The /quiet switch has no effect.
Maybe someone could add this to the wiki, I haven't had time to figure out how contribute to it yet.

[fuzzweed]

i had the same problem and solved it in pretty much the same way - but I posted the question on the Hauppauge foaurms too, and they told me to install the non IR card first, then the IR card, then IR.exe.
I've not actually tried it out as the devcon solution turned out to be an adiquate (if messy) way of solving the problem, but maybe another solution if anyones got the time or inclination to test it.....

[mmatheny]

I have 2 PVR-250s and have never had an issue with the IR program.

[jrolson7]

It seems it is only an issue when you run two or more hauppenauge pci tuner cards and one of them doesn't have the IR capabilities built into the card, like the PVR 150MCE (no IR) that I use in combination with a PVR 350, which has the IR capabilities built in to the card. I've found that the Hauppenauge IR program will not run when it finds a non-IR capable Hauppenauge PCI tuner card is installed and enabled. If you disable the non-IR capable card, the IR program will load. I've not tried re-installing the cards as suggested in in previous reply, as it's no longer an issue because I'm now using the Firefly remote.

[mmatheny]

have you contacted Hauppauge about this serious bug??

[scb147]

I have a PVR150 and a PVR150MCE, and I have no problems with the IR.

I installed the PVR150 first, installed the IR software, then I installed the PVR150MCE.

[fuzzweed]

does anyone know how to close the cmd window once my batch file has run??? I've googled for answers and nothing seems to work...

Code:

echo off
DEVCON DISABLE "@PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_8800&SUBSYS_96000070&REV_05\3&61AAA01&0&60"
START /B C:\STARTIR.BAT
DEVCON ENABLE "@PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_8800&SUBSYS_96000070&REV_05\3&61AAA01&0&60"
cls
exit

PS

It DOES get ir.exe working again, however a message box pops up when ir.exe loads. Haven't figured out how to supress that yet. The /quiet switch has no effect.

sticking @start f:\progra~1\wintv\ir.exe /quiet in another batch file gets the switch to work