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<blockquote data-quote="AndyQ" data-source="post: 26187" data-attributes="member: 12991">TYou can't control a sky box with the Hauppauge ir blaster - sucks but Hauppage claim that there will be a new version with all boxes release in a few weeks. Mind you, they told me that back in July!!Anyway, if you want a nice reliable solution (MUCH better than using an IR blaster which I found incredibly unreliable (used the MCE blaster which worked fine but the sky box wouldn't pick up all the signals resulting in only about 1 in 6 channel changes actually working), then check out <a href="http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc" target="_blank">http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc</a>.&nbsp; I bought one of these a while back and it works flawlessly. Still needs a little work to run in Mediaportal but I've written a small C# app that changes the channels (I do play to add it as a plugin to MP but so far just not the time to do so - get so little computer time at the moment - sad).Anyway, if anyone wants the app, let me know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AndyQ, post: 26187, member: 12991"] TYou can't control a sky box with the Hauppauge ir blaster - sucks but Hauppage claim that there will be a new version with all boxes release in a few weeks. Mind you, they told me that back in July!! Anyway, if you want a nice reliable solution (MUCH better than using an IR blaster which I found incredibly unreliable (used the MCE blaster which worked fine but the sky box wouldn't pick up all the signals resulting in only about 1 in 6 channel changes actually working), then check out [url]http://www.heenan.me.uk/control-sky-from-pc[/url]. I bought one of these a while back and it works flawlessly. Still needs a little work to run in Mediaportal but I've written a small C# app that changes the channels (I do play to add it as a plugin to MP but so far just not the time to do so - get so little computer time at the moment - sad). Anyway, if anyone wants the app, let me know. [/QUOTE]

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