weird IR reciever? what driver?

[Mark F]

Welcome to Girder!

I don't know. Do any of the chips on the receiver have words and /or numbers that might help us tell what they are?

[Ingo]

Hi Digital Fodder,

the only IR thing I can connect to my Abit KT7 is IRDA. Can you confirm that your device is irda? If yes, have a look at the Girder FAQ/IRDA. If not, maybe I can have a look at my board/manual... witch connector does it use on the board?

[Ingo]

I too would guess its IRDA... if so, read http://www.girder.nl/help/faq.php#202

[kari]

My guess is that it is an IRDA transceiver.

I have no experience with IRDA myself, but Windows supports it so there should be a, possibly generic, Windows driver for it.

If it *is* IRDA and you were hoping to use it to receive codes from standard remotes, I wouldn't recommend it. I haven't tried it myself, but going by the comments I've read here, while it seems possible to get some response from it (and there is actually an (unsupported) IRDA plugin for Girder), the results, both in terms of range and reliability, seem not to be worth the bother.

-Kári.

[kari]

As to the differences between remotes; I think somebody mentioned some equipment in a thread here that actually used IRDA for remote communications. This, however, is a very unusual exception. I have also heard somewhere of HF remotes that use a much higher frequency carrier than 'standard' remotes. I rather think this was mentioned as being used by recent B&O equipment, but I'm not sure.

'Standard' remotes use a carrier of about 36-40kHz. There are various protocols, but most of them work with most non-IRDA remote receivers (IrMan, UIR, UIRT et al.).

-Kári.

[Digital Fodder]

hi, i recently got a Packard Bell IR recievcer and it connects to in inside of computer on my Abit KT7a. What driver would i use and what type of IR reciever is this?

http://www.synet.eclipse.co.uk/ir.JPG
There are four wires there (White,Black,Blue and red)

[Digital Fodder]

there isnt much in the way or writing on the chips but this is what it says

ss 88E162342 94V-0

RM823304P

and a date of 10-22"1996

Windows said there was an IR device when i turned on IR in the bios so i assume that its the bios telling that its there when infact its not. There is no wording saying that its IRDA, there are only four wires but i think the Abit mobo expects 5 (as ther there 5 pins)

Also you say not from "Standard" remotes...i thought all remotes are the same? what seperates them?

Thanks
Mark :-?