URC-6131, MCE IR Receiver, SageTV

[aperry]

I have SageTV, and recently purchased a Microsoft Media Center remote (with receiver).

SageTV comes "out-of-the-box" with support for the Hauppauge remote and the StreamZap remote.

Can I program my URC-6131 to send out codes for either or both of these remotes? And, will the IR receiver I got with my Media Center remote package send those signals through so that SageTV sees them and can react?

Thanks for any help you all can provide!

[johnsfine]

SageTV comes "out-of-the-box" with support for the Hauppauge remote and the StreamZap remote.

With what as an IR receiver?

Can I program my URC-6131 to send out codes for either or both of these remotes?

I'm sure it can send both. There is plenty of info about the StreamZap protocol online. I don't recall what's online about Hauppauge, but I expect it is enough (to duplicate that without needing a learning remote for research).

And, will the IR receiver I got with my Media Center remote package send those signals through so that SageTV sees them and can react?

I doubt it. But I'm really not sure.

[aperry]

SageTV comes "out-of-the-box" with support for the Hauppauge remote and the StreamZap remote.

With what as an IR receiver?

With the IR receiver that the remote (Hauppauge or StreamZap) would be packaged with.

Can I program my URC-6131 to send out codes for either or both of these remotes?

I'm sure it can send both. There is plenty of info about the StreamZap protocol online. I don't recall what's online about Hauppauge, but I expect it is enough (to duplicate that without needing a learning remote for research).

That's good news. I'll do some more digging I guess to find the information on loading the StreamZap or Hauppauge info into my URC-6131.

And, will the IR receiver I got with my Media Center remote package send those signals through so that SageTV sees them and can react?

I doubt it. But I'm really not sure.

I hope you're wrong here... But I'm getting the MCE remote tonight, and a friend has a Hauppauge remote I could borrow, so I'll give it a try and see what happens.

[The Robman]

If you are asking whether you can set up the IR receiver that comes with the Streamzap and, once you've verified that it works with the Streamzap remote, replace the Streamzap remote with a URC-6131, then the answer is yes.

[aperry]

There are a few scenarios that I am considering here:

Can my Robman-modded URC-6131 be updated to send out Media Center edition codes?

I know from the above posts, that my URC-6131 can send out StreamZap and/or Hauppauge compatible signals. Do we know if the infrared receiver that ships with the Microsoft Media Center edition remote package is compatible with (will pass through) the StreamZap/Hauppauge IR codes?

If neither of the above are true, then do we know if the MCE IR receiver can receive/pass-through signals from any other type of remote?

I guess if none of this works, I'll need to do like Robman referenced above, and purchase a StreamZap so that I have a compatible IR receiver.

[johnsfine]

Can my Robman-modded URC-6131 be updated to send out Media Center edition codes?

Yes. You can load the media center upgrade into a modded URC-6131 via JP1. It can then send all the MCE signals that the original MCE remote would AND it can send additional MCE signals that the original can't. There are instructions in some thread for modifying a file on the PC to bind extra signals to extra actions, but I never understood those details, since I don't have any of those devices or files.

You may be able to use that feature of MCE to get whatever extra IR triggered actions you want, even if the receiver doesn't handle protocols other than MCE.