On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:04:19 -0700, Bridgland wrote: >SUCCESS - Here's the wierdest thing. > >I decided to go back to neanderthal electronics and put a shorted out jack >plug connector in place of the IR blaster cable and it found the IR Hardware >finally. Once past that point I swapped the shorted plug for the IR blaster >cable, assuming that it was a failed unit and went through the rest of the >wizard.....Hey Presto! it all works. It may well be that it needs some specific resistive load before it detects that you really do have the IR bug plugged in. For Sky digiboxes you can avoid the IR bug solution by using a gizmo that plugs in place of the bug & then connects to the RF2 aerial (US: antenna:-) socket. This is far more reliable than an IR bug but one of the recommendations if you have problems setting it up is to use a 1/8" jack Y-adaptor to plug both the new gizmo & the original IR bug into the receiver socket. >All on this thread - Thanks for your help in checking off all of the >possibilities. Your welcome!:-) It's a delight to have someone with the missing IR Hardware error who isn't whining that they don't see why they have to buy the missing hardware & that Microsoft should fix the issue just for them:-) -- Cheers Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur MCE MVP
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:38:59 +0200, Nigel Barker wrote: >On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:04:19 -0700, Bridgland > wrote: > >>SUCCESS - Here's the wierdest thing. >> >>I decided to go back to neanderthal electronics and put a shorted out jack >>plug connector in place of the IR blaster cable and it found the IR Hardware >>finally. Once past that point I swapped the shorted plug for the IR blaster >>cable, assuming that it was a failed unit and went through the rest of the >>wizard.....Hey Presto! it all works. > >It may well be that it needs some specific resistive load before it detects >that you really do have the IR bug plugged in. For Sky digiboxes you can avoid >the IR bug solution by using a gizmo that plugs in place of the bug & then >connects to the RF2 aerial (US: antenna:-) socket. This is far more reliable >than an IR bug but one of the recommendations if you have problems setting it >up is to use a 1/8" jack Y-adaptor to plug both the new gizmo & the original IR >bug into the receiver socket. Here is a link to purchase one for those interested http://www.pacelink.co.uk/rf2link.htm -- Cheers Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur MCE MVP
