Well having just spent 5 hours of my life trying to work a Vista MCE remote I am asking myself why, why did I not research this more before I did it. Sigh.

I bought the Hauppauge PVR150MCE edition. Why did I not just get the normal edition? I think the name sounded cooler at the time or something. Sigh.

SO anyways, there I was with my copy of Windows XP (just plain old vanilla XP, not MCE) and this darn Vista Remote/Reciever. I plug in the reciever and get a New Device found, which it picks up to be the eHome Infrared Transceiver. Automatic updates doesn’t find anything. So I start googling away, and get more and more depressed and frustrated over the course of about 2 hours. I find a slew of forum posts saying that you should be able to install the Rollup 2 for Windows Media Centre and it will install the correct drivers sweet.

Wrong! Epicly wrong. Times ten. After trying every single combination of random drivers and Updates etc etc the bloody thing was still not working. Why on earth can their not be a simple, Windows XP driver lurking out there???

In the end I ended up editing the INF file for the irblaster drivers by adding the unrecognized device id to the file. Will post up details later. Probably not the best solution but I was able to use HID to program all the remotes functions and mesh it up with GBPVR.

If only I didn’t have a husband that likes watching SKY so much, I could have it all set up by now!! But a certain someone can’t live without un-interrupted TV viewing :P