Re: No more com port, need a USB receiver

[J.Bakshi <bak...@gm...>]

I like to give thanks to all of you for making me familiar with both the 
commecrcial and home brew product. The links you have provided so far, the 
direction you have shown me abt FTDI chipset and the other links to the 
thread discussing usb receiver. Thanks to all of you to give me a direction.



On Friday 10 Oct 2008 11:50:33 pm Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Chris Grove <dj_...@ti...> 
wrote:
> > Hi, I'm not sure what IR-BOY is but Albert Huitsing and Jon Smirl have
> > been discussing the idea of building their own USB receiver, it might be
> > worth you looking back through the messages in the list and see what you
> > can find. Good Luck, Chris.
>
> If you want it simple and easy, just buy a  MCEUSB2 for $30-40. It
> does everything you will want it to.
> It will cost you more than $30 in time and effort to build your own
> equivalent.
>
> Random link, $35 with free ship.
> http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=70216
>
> You can pay $90 for the same item but you are just being ripped off.
> It is about $10 worth of parts.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J.Bakshi [mailto:bak...@gm...]
> > Sent: 10 October 2008 18:32
> > To: lir...@li...
> > Cc: Chris Grove
> > Subject: Re: No more com port, need a USB receiver
> >
> > On Friday 10 Oct 2008 10:48:30 pm Chris Grove wrote:
> >> Hi, There's a couple of people throwing ideas around about building
> >> your own USB receiver if you want to, but the other alternative that
> >> might work for you is to get an USB to RS-232 adapter and then you
> >> should be able to carry on using your existing receiver. Good Luck,
> >> Chris
> >
> > Thanks for your respone Chris. Yes I always favour building own receiver.
> > If there is PIC based IR-BOY or something better than it kindly make me
> > familiar with it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: J.Bakshi [mailto:bak...@gm...]
> >> Sent: 09 October 2008 13:20
> >> To: lir...@li...
> >> Subject: No more com port, need a USB receiver
> >>
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> I have replaced my very old PI mobo with a new one based on Duron
> >> processor.
> >>
> >> this mobo doesn't have any COM port. So my Home brew serial port
> >> receiver is
> >>
> >> now useless. I have search the lirc site and IR-BOY is very attractive
> >> to me.
> >> again the problem is the programmer which based on non usb port and in
> >> my mobo I have only USB ports. Could any one suggest me a good tiny
> >> USB receiver for LIRC ? Is there any PIC version is available for
> >> IR-BOY ? USB based PIC programmer are easily available. Any
> >> suggestion/idea is most welcome.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
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