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<blockquote data-quote="rsbrux" data-source="post: 1281931" data-attributes="member: 49539"><p>[USER=141969]@CyberSimian[/USER] thanks for your encouragement! ;-}</p><p>I <em>do</em> have standard equipment. I have been using the built-in USB IR receiver that came with my FSC Scaleo E since 2005 with the included MCE RC6 remote <em>and</em> various emulators of same. A few years ago I switched to using the built-in CIR interface on the Intel motherboard I installed to upgrade my HTPC about 8 years ago, because it supported waking up the HTPC, which the FSC IR I/F couldn't. I also have 3 RF keyboards. One of them came with the Scaleo E and uses a built-in USB I/F, the other 2 have dongles. Except for my brief complaint above, which was caused by my own misconfiguration of the HID options in MP (which I will document in the Wiki), they have always worked fine. All of the IR devices (including the original MCE RC6 remote) stopped working at the same time. If only the motherboard I/F or the USB I/F had been affected, I would have assumed defective HW. However, since both stopped working simultaneously, I suspect a SW problem. I am <em>not</em> blaming MP. In fact nothing had changed in my MP installation when the problem occurred, so I rather suspect a Windows update as the cause. I was hoping that a clean OS installation would resolve the problem, but so far, no joy. In the worst case, I will get myself a new external MCE IR receiver, but this will only complicate my installation and make it uglier, so I am reluctant to do so unless I have exhausted all hope of getting the built-in I/Fs to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rsbrux, post: 1281931, member: 49539"] [USER=141969]@CyberSimian[/USER] thanks for your encouragement! ;-} I [I]do[/I] have standard equipment. I have been using the built-in USB IR receiver that came with my FSC Scaleo E since 2005 with the included MCE RC6 remote [I]and[/I] various emulators of same. A few years ago I switched to using the built-in CIR interface on the Intel motherboard I installed to upgrade my HTPC about 8 years ago, because it supported waking up the HTPC, which the FSC IR I/F couldn't. I also have 3 RF keyboards. One of them came with the Scaleo E and uses a built-in USB I/F, the other 2 have dongles. Except for my brief complaint above, which was caused by my own misconfiguration of the HID options in MP (which I will document in the Wiki), they have always worked fine. All of the IR devices (including the original MCE RC6 remote) stopped working at the same time. If only the motherboard I/F or the USB I/F had been affected, I would have assumed defective HW. However, since both stopped working simultaneously, I suspect a SW problem. I am [I]not[/I] blaming MP. In fact nothing had changed in my MP installation when the problem occurred, so I rather suspect a Windows update as the cause. I was hoping that a clean OS installation would resolve the problem, but so far, no joy. In the worst case, I will get myself a new external MCE IR receiver, but this will only complicate my installation and make it uglier, so I am reluctant to do so unless I have exhausted all hope of getting the built-in I/Fs to work. [/QUOTE]
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