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IR Card to send signal to cable box (Media Center)

I just got my windows media center yesterday... everything seems great, with one exception. I can't change the channels on my cable box via my media center pc. I dunno why there is no IR out on my HP a1340n. So can someone please tell me what kind of card / cable I need to buy. I see that my cable box has an IR (in) place on it. Thank you.
- luke

Callandor

I would recommend a USB UIRT box: http://www.usbuirt.com/ It has nice features like the ability to learn IR codes of your existing equipment.

lukeamotion

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NOTE
The USB-UIRT will not function as an
IR blaster for Windows XP MCE 2005.

The USB-UIRT combines the capability of other PC-based IR Receivers with a fully-featured IR Transmitter (sometimes referred to as a 'Blaster'). This allows your PC to not only receive codes from the remote controls you already have, but also to control your equipment (or any device with an IR receiver).

Callandor

It looks like you are locked into Microsoft's approved products for MCE: http://65.36.202.170/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=832&sid=af56d60e8d13e147ceedd90226beb441

lukeamotion

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ok where do i buy that?

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lukeamotion

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I figured out that what I need isn't the IR blaster... Its the card to go into the computer to send signal to the cable box.

Thanks guys.

jccorado

can you tell which card you finally bought?

thanks