Re: Still looking for a USB IR receiver

[Tim H <ti...@gm...>]

What do you need to find that you cannot find on a Google search for ~usb
infrared~?

IR use has been declining for years and so, finding cheap devices is
tougher than ever.

usbgear and Cables To Go have good devices and provide support.  Driver
support is the key thing.  There are lots of chips still in inventory that
were made years ago.  However, there might not be anyone around who knows
the chip and is willing and able to create or update a driver.

I had a device on a MacBook, which had that neutered IR receiver. I got it
to work in Parallels with Windows XP.  But a native driver for OS X? I
never found one.

Tim

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Stefan Monnier <mo...@ir...>wrote:

> I've been looking for an IR-receiver to use on a host that basically
> only has USB available for it, and I can't seem to find anything
> between:
> - do it yourself receivers (neat, but I'd rather avoid using
>  a soldering iron).
> - $40 and more thingies like Iguanaworks's transceivers.
>
> The only cheap pre-built stuff I can find are the legion of "no driver
> required" IR receiver with remote (on Dealextreme) which sadly don't
> actually give access to the IR signal, but instead appear as
> pseudo-mouse and pseudo-keyboard (and can't be easily used with other
> remotes).
>
>
>        Stefan "and worst of all, this is for a mac-mini which already
>                has an IR receiver, but neutered so it only works with
>                the silly Apple Remote"
>
>
>
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