User manual HAUPPAUGE IR REMOTE BLASTER

[. . . ] ote: you can only use the Hauppauge remote control with IR RemoteBlaster. The IR Receiver does not respond to remote control transmitters from other devices like a TV set or VCR. Page 1 N ote: Before installing the IR Remote Blaster cable, install the WinTV board plus driver and application software from the WinTV Installation CD ROM. Make sure that the WinTV application works properly when using your mouse or keyboard. During the installation of the WinTV software from the WinTV Installation CD-ROM, the Hauppauge WinTV IR and IR Blaster Applications will be automatically installed. You will be asked during the IR software installation to acknowledge a software license. [. . . ] With others, you might need to look carefully at the set top box for what looks like a round or square area underneath the plastic front panel. There is double sided tape on the back of the IR transmitter to hold it in place over the Page 2 remote sensor in your set top box Connect the set top box's audio/video outputs to the WinTV. This is the same as connecting a set top box to a TV set: chose either composite video, S-Video or TV tuner as the way to connect from the set top box to WinTV. Some set top boxes send video via channel 3 or 4, others have composite or S-Video outputs. Chose one method and make the necessary audio/video connections from your set top box to WinTV. Step 5: Set your set top box output in the WinTV application After you make the video connection from your set top box to WinTV in step 4, you need to tell WinTV where the audio/video from your set top box is coming from. Many set top boxes use a channel 3 or 4 out via a RF output connector. Other boxes use S-Video or Composite video for output. In either case, you need to tell WinTV where the video will be coming from. If your set top box has an RF output (a coax cable going from the set top box to the TV input on the WinTV board), click Menu / Suite Manager / Sources. Under Input Sources, click Analog Source. In Channel, select the channel (channel 3 or 4) where the video comes from. If you connect to your set top box via composite or S-Video, click Menu / Suite Manager / Sources. Under Input Sources, click the A/V connector which is connected to your set top box (Composite or S-Video) and click Save. A channel will be created and given a Preset number. Step 6: Configure the IR transmitter to control your set top box Like universal remote controls, the Hauppauge IR RemoteBlaster has a list of common set top boxes which it can control. And like universal remote controls, you must test various codes from the list to see which one applies to your specific set top box. Run IR Blaster from Windows Start / Programs / Hauppauge WinTV menu. N ote: if some of the controls are greyed out, it means the IRRemote Blaster hardware is not found on your WinTV. 6b. There is a special region for Hauppauge if you want to control Hauppauge DEC boxes. Select the Device (cable or satellite), then Vendor/Model of your set top box. Page 3 The CodeSet will contain a list of codes which IRRemoteBlaster knows about the selected Vendor. There might be as many as ten codes for the Vendor chosen. You should see the IR transmitter blink after each click of the Power On/Off button. [. . . ] This is where you specify which tuner channel or video source on the WinTV is connected to your set top box. Select the channel from the pull down list which corresponds to the way your set top box is connected to WinTV. For example, if your set top box is connected via the TV tuner connector and uses channel 3, select Ch. Make sure that Use Hauppauge IR Blaster Hardware is checked. [. . . ]