HID Plugin Using Creative sb0540

[EvilFerrit]

I have just recently purchased an Audigy 4 sound card that comes with a usb ir controller. When looking in the device manager it comes up as a USB Human Interface Device. I have tried following the guide in the downloads section but cannot seem to get this working.

The guide states that the device should come up as "remote" in the location but my SB0540 comes up as "Location 0 (Creative USB IR Receiver)".

I have turned on the plugin in girder but the settings box is greyed out. I recieve a new tab called HID and can see the device there.

No remote codes will work though.

Can you help me. I am stuck an dont know where to go from here.

Thanks

[Promixis]

You enabled the HID plugin and can see the device there? Would you attach a screen shot of the page?

Also, do you see keystrokes in the logger when you press buttons on the remote. Some HID remotes just send keypresses.

[EvilFerrit]

Hi Mike,

Sorry for the delay getting back to you.

The key logger once cleared shows nothing when I press remote. I have made an Igor IR reciever and this works but the device stops responding so I wanted to get the creative one going instead. The creative ir reciever works fine with its own program.

I have also included the photos as requested

Thanks

[Promixis]

Hi, so far the looks good. I need to see what you see when you press edit on read ....

[blubberhoofd]

hi, Mike

funny enough, activating "edit on read" does seem to be required to make it work, which is rather counter intuative.

@EvilFerrit,
the sensor units like TSOP-1738 do break down with an Igorplug device after some time of use, but they are easy to replace ;)

[Promixis]

thanks, will check that

[EvilFerrit]

Hi Mike,

Here is the screenshot as requested. as the page is not big enough to show all the details I have added it here.

function HidRead( data )

--Processing code in here, note this is NOT the Girder Lua state

local s=""

if data then
for b in string.gfind(data, ".") do
s =s .. string.format("%02X ", string.byte(b))
end
end
gir.TriggerEvent(s, 239)

end

I have tried with "enabled" on and off

Blubberhoofd, Thanks for that but the chip is still working it just locks up. I have to unplug the device and replug it and it works again.It happens if I leave the computer on for more than 24 hours.

[Promixis]

that should do it. you are not seeing any events in girder's log window after setting up the HID and enabling?

[EvilFerrit]

none at all. I even removed the creative program to make sure it was not stopping girder from using it.

[Promixis]

I am out of ideas then. We have seen some HID devices that we cannot read this way :(

[EvilFerrit]

alright m8 thanks anyway. I'll have to put up with the Igor Reciever then.

[xanarchistx]

Actually, I just got my Audigy 4 USB IR Receiver to work with Girder today, and it works perfectly.

EvilFerrit, what you have done so far is exactly the way I did mine, but then after that, I switched to Advanced View, and I manually entered the commands for the captured buttons on the remote. After that, it is flawless.

Now, I am hoping to use my Harmony 688 Remote on the IR Receiver when it comes!

[EvilFerrit]

thanks m8, i'll give it a try. I am thinking I might need to do a clean install.