How does Girder5 access UART?

[jackshowme]

I have a IR receiver, which is connecting to my PC's COM1. Running girder5, I try to add a remote by clicking too/add remote wizard. Following the wizard instruction, I do
1. next
2. Pick remote New..next
3. detecting remote
In step 3, I click my remote. But nothing happen..
what should I do?

[Rob H]

What sort of IR receiver is this? You'll probably need to install a plugin to let Girder talk to it.

[jackshowme]

What sort of IR receiver is this? You'll probably need to install a plugin to let Girder talk to it.
IR is Infrared for short.
All I want is to let Girder can talk a remote control (RC) via COM (RS232). In other word, my RC is wireless connected to COM. When I click a button in my RC, a specified code will sent to COM. And I hope Girder can receive it, recognize it represented the button I clicked, and tell a progrom installed in my pc to do something I want.
Yes, I think I need a plugin. But, I don't know to do it. Is there such a plugin available now?

[Rob H]

Yes, I know what IR is :)

What I meant was exactly what IR receiver hardware are you using? Is this something you've bought or something you've made?

[jackshowme]

Forget IR pls...
Let me specify my problem in more detail. All I have is a Remote Control, RC. RC have a few buttons. My Pc install Win7 and MCE. I hope MCE can do something I want when I click a RC's button. My current status is as below
RC has a ZigBee transmitter, and A Zigbee receiver is connected to PC via a usb2UART adaptor, the virtual COM is said to be COM4. when a RC button is pressed, a specified Zigbee packet will be sent out via ZigBee transmitter, and it contains a specified function code, say FunCode (may be 1 bye length).
When I open hyperteminal connected to COM4 and see FunCode is displayed. So I believe the Zigbee receiver can receive the specified Zigbee packet and get FunCode.
All i want now is to let Girder know FunCode is coming and ask MCE to do something defined by FunCode.
What shoud I do now?

[Rob H]

Okay, the first thing will be to write a serial or transport plugin to talk to the zigbee receiver. Check the help file for examples of transport plugins and also search here for 'serial'.