Hauppauge irremote.ini

[millertinymouse]

Setting up a new computer running Windows 11 with Colossus 2 capture card.  Would like to use my old 45 button Hauppauge remote
with the IR receiver.   Having some issues to learn the codes for my STB (Telus) but I have submitted that to Hauppauge support.

I searched on the forum for an updated irremote.ini but only found old posts.  Those old posts have links to an older wiki that is no
longer available.    Does anyone have that ini file or do you suggest I do this differently?

I was using LM Geston on my previous computer but it seems to be gone.

[sub]

I don't think I remember anyone mentioning using the Hauppauge IR receiver and remote in last 15 years. Most people switched to MCE remotes.

If you're running their software, from memory it was a pretty basic mapping of button press to keystroke. Any old posts are probably still relevant, but you might need to change the application title to [NextPVR] instead of the old [nPVR], to match the current window title in NextPVR.exe

[mvallevand]

Try this https://web.archive.org/web/202211271203...ttonRemote

But change it for the current version.

Martin

[millertinymouse]

Thank you.

[millertinymouse]

Hauppauge was not much help on the blaster issue. I ended up using usbuirtsend for controlling the STB. Some notes for others:

If you put learn for the 2nd parameter it will create a file with the codes. It will prompt for buttons 0 to 9 and enter, although I don't think enter is used.
I ran it a second time and created another file but substituted the other buttons that I needed. Then went into that file and renamed the number button.
eq. 0 button is now Back.

Then I used a combination of uutx, usbuirtsend and ping -n x in my batch file to control the STB.
Unfortunately I needed to wake the STB and sometimes the menu is in the wrong spot.

[fla]

I'm still using my 45 button Hauppauge remote on Win11 with an old HDPVR2 which must be similar to a Colossus 2. I was forced to buy a WinTV v10 license which comes with a more recent blastcfg.exe and blast.exe. Some trial & error with blastcfg.exe is needed to find the Vendor/Model and CodeSet that works with your STB.

Under Win11 the ir.exe (from ir32.exe) doesn't usually automatically startup when waking from hibernate but I mostly use the blast.exe functionality through the NextPVR service.

[millertinymouse]

Thank you fla. To get the functionality from what I had before I needed two capture cards. The 2nd one is a Hauppauge 2250 for the antenna capture.

I had bought the Colossus 2 to capture from my STB and plugged the blaster into that card. Turns out I needed to plug into the 2250 and did not bother
digging into further as to why. After that my old INI file worked fine.

[fla]

I also use the same irremote.ini from many years ago without problem. I need a background powershell script to periodically see if ir.exe is running and restart it when it's not (mostly when Win11 Pro wakes from sleep/hibernate). Does your ir.exe survive sleep/wake on Win11?

You mention learning codes from your STB remote in the OP. How does that work? I only know how to use blastcfg.exe and hope one of the STB's in the supported list works with my STB. Asking because thinking about switching TV provider and not sure their STB will be in the blastcfg list.

[millertinymouse]

My computer is on all the time so no issues with sleep/wake.

Just to clarify, I gave up on using the Hauppauge blaster and was using my USB UIRT as the blaster

The syntax I use for usbuirtsend is:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\usbuirtsend.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\telus1.txt" %1
where %1 is the channel numbers.  If you replace %1 with the word learn then it will prompt you to build that file.
It prompts for buttons 0 to 9 and then enter.  You do need to have your remote like one inch away from the receiver.

I ran it a second time and created a second file, which I called telus2.txt
But when it prompted me for 0, I pressed Back instead.  For 1, i pressed OK (Enter), etc.
Then I went into that second file and renamed the lines, replacing 0 with the word Back.
See attached picture.

Then I can send Back using uutx
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\uutx.exe" -f"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\telus2.txt" Back

So I ended up sending "Back", wait 2 secs, send "Ok", wait 4 secs, then send the Channel.  This is my blaster batch file:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\uutx.exe" -f"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\telus2.txt" Back
ping -n 2 localhost
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\uutx.exe" -f"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\telus2.txt" Ok
ping -n 4 localhost
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\usbuirtsend.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Miscellaneous\usbuirt\telus1.txt" %1

This seems to be what I needed to reliably be able to wake the STB and deal with the menu.

[fla]

Thank you very much @millertinymouse for these very helpful detailed instructions. This may give me the confidence to finally try a better TV provider.