MichaelD
Lifer
While spec'ing out my new HTPC I was very careful to choose compatible components. I purchased WinXP MCE 2005 and a Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE edition DVR card. It came with the MCE remote and a USB IR receiver box and an IR blaster.
And I can't get the receiver box to work; I get the same error in Device Manager that the other guys get. I literally spent all day yesterday (12+ hours) reloading the OS and Googling for answers.
I found this and this and about a dozen other threads with the identical info and that fix does NOT work. I tried everything I know and then some.
I have an email into Hauppauge for the problem.
Anyone else run into this? What good is the PVR card if I can't control my set top box w/it?
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*EDIT 29 JAN 08*
HOLY COW, I fixed it! 😀 This was my first IRB.inf file hack and I guess beginner's luck had a lot to do with it. In Device Manager I noticed that whenever I'd plug the IR receiver in, I'd get the "Unknown E-home IR transcevr" error. But in the PROPERTIES page, it showed "Unknown device//USB\VID_0609&PID_0334//some-alphanumeric-string." <--This VID/PID was NOT in the original irb.inf folder.
/gears turning
So, I copy/pasted a line from the HW section to the end of the list and changed the data after the comma to reflect ^^that VID/PID. Saved the file and rebooted. When I plugged the receiver in this time I got the Found New Hardware box as usual, but this time it said "Compliant IR Receiver Device." I told it to search the net for drivers. It found them. It repeated this no less than 8 times. I now have more HID Devices/USB Devices/Keyboard Devices/Mouse Devices.
Each time I told it to go to the net and it found them. All the drivers are dated "Microsoft/2001" by the way.
Hopefully this can help somebody else. 🙂
And I can't get the receiver box to work; I get the same error in Device Manager that the other guys get. I literally spent all day yesterday (12+ hours) reloading the OS and Googling for answers.
I found this and this and about a dozen other threads with the identical info and that fix does NOT work. I tried everything I know and then some.
I have an email into Hauppauge for the problem.
Anyone else run into this? What good is the PVR card if I can't control my set top box w/it?
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*EDIT 29 JAN 08*
HOLY COW, I fixed it! 😀 This was my first IRB.inf file hack and I guess beginner's luck had a lot to do with it. In Device Manager I noticed that whenever I'd plug the IR receiver in, I'd get the "Unknown E-home IR transcevr" error. But in the PROPERTIES page, it showed "Unknown device//USB\VID_0609&PID_0334//some-alphanumeric-string." <--This VID/PID was NOT in the original irb.inf folder.
/gears turning
So, I copy/pasted a line from the HW section to the end of the list and changed the data after the comma to reflect ^^that VID/PID. Saved the file and rebooted. When I plugged the receiver in this time I got the Found New Hardware box as usual, but this time it said "Compliant IR Receiver Device." I told it to search the net for drivers. It found them. It repeated this no less than 8 times. I now have more HID Devices/USB Devices/Keyboard Devices/Mouse Devices.
Each time I told it to go to the net and it found them. All the drivers are dated "Microsoft/2001" by the way.
Hopefully this can help somebody else. 🙂
