[thebearnecessit]

I have a Logitech Harmony One that I'd like to use to control XBMC.

I've read hundreds of forum discussions, wiki pages and tutorials to try and get this working to no avail.

Long story short I can't get my Hauppauge IR Receiver working with windows XP Pro SP3. I've downloaded rollup drivers, edited inf files, edited my registry manually (and with scripts), tried HIP, Eventghost, autoHotKey and others.

Has anyone on here got an idea of which IR Receiver I can buy that will work with my OS? There surely must be one that is reliable with MCE Keyboard and XP Pro SP3?

I understand that th best way is to setup the Logitech remote to pretend to be an MCE Keyboard, but I just need an IR Receiver that can pic up and undestand those signals.

Any input or help AT ALL is gratefully received

[jhsrennie]

Any of the eHome/RC6 remotes described in http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Remote_Control_Reviews

Note that you will have to reduce the interkey delay setting on your Harmony or the response to pressing the buttons will be rather slow.

JR

[thebearnecessit]

Thanks mate.

I'd prefer to get the microsoft one but cant see any on ebay.com

So I was about to buy the HP one on ebay but it says on the listing "won't work wth XP".

Are you sure this one is supposed to be ok with XP? or am i loking at the wrong thing? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-new-HP-M...4aad00b235

[jhsrennie]

There seem to be some models of the HP receiver that aren't detected by XP. See http://it.megocollector.com/?p=8 for the details. I have an HP receiver that looks just like the one in your posting and it works fine on XP, but the trouble is that the models that work and the models that don't look very similar.

I had a quick look on ebay and though I couldn't see any MS receivers there are several handset/receiver combos. What about http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250984403241. Since the handset is cracked you're effectively just buying the receiver.

JR

[dukey]

It should work with winlirc. In which case you can use any remote control with it. You aren't stuck with a RC6 remote.