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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hexed" data-source="post: 978787" data-attributes="member: 29349">I've been happy with MCE up until recently, and want to explore Media Portal. What impresses me about MCE (I'm running Windows 7 32-bit) is the way it handles the IR blasting.  It asks you to press the enter key on your STB remote, and it just automatically recognised my remote and everything has worked reliably. I installed Media Portal in the hopes of playing with it from time to time in the background with a plan to possibly moving to it. I use Live TV functionality with my Sky STB, so IR blasting is critical for me.  I installed IR Server (I'd previously used this with great success on XP using GB-PVR as well as using HIP before that, so I'm familiar with configuring remotes with blasting) and have been trying to get it working all week. My first issue is that the HTPC says that the IR Server is not setup to support learning, as experienced by Ranlandau.  I'm using a Hauppauge MCE remote kit that came with my PVR-500 MCE card. I tried all sorts of config options before resorting to using the usb IR receiver on my laptop which is running the same version of Windows.  It was able to learn successfully.  I copied the ir commands from the IR Server config folder of my laptop across to my HTPC and was eventually able to see that when I tested the blasting, the light lit up on my IR blasting bud.  I wasn't able to get the STB to respond to the codes though. I then decided to turn off my plasma TV and sure enough, I was able to get codes to work for digits 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 0.  Not bad.  This gave me hope that maybe I'd just been inconsistent with the learning, so I did a few iterations for the codes that didn't work.  No luck. I then began to doubt that the blasting was happening, which was confirmed when I rechecked a known good code.  Up to this point, it was very stable.  The 1 digit was able to work for 1, 11 etc.  It was no longer working.  I'm not sure what caused this, but I suspected removing and replacing the IR receiver may have been the issue, so I did reboots prior to retesting. I gave up and went to bed.  I made some progress, but was annoyed at the end, with the inconsistency.  I haven't delved into the logs to see if there's a reason for the blasting to stop.  I do have one question though - my MCE setup is very reliable with the STB blasting.  Does anyone know if it's possible to export the IR codes from MCE somewhere?  I suppose I could go through each remote option and try to figure out which one my remote is (it's not obvious from the STB - it's a Sky NZ Pace STB).  But ideally, I could find the codes it uses in the registry, or at least an indication of what it's set to, so that I can import the perfect codes into IR Server Suite.  If I can eliminate dodgy learned IR codes, that would be a big help. Another thing - I've noticed that if I learn the same remote button 8 times, it always varies in length and value.  I try to be consistent and only press the button long enough to register the successful learning.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I'm dying to dive into Media Portal further, but am not going to if I can't get blasting to work.  I may end up buying a new IR receiver and remote if necessary, but it works so well with MCE.</blockquote>

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