[mythtv-users] Questions about WinLIRC

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just starting to catch up on a serious backlog of Mythmail and saw a message
> about WinLIRC.  I hadn't heard of that before and had a question, if someone
> could be so kind as to clue me in.
>
> Would this work if I plug an old USB IR Tx/Rx device in to my Win7 laptop
> and match it with the Microsoft media center IR remote that came with its
> own Tx/Rx (not something I want to lug around with a laptop on travel)?  If
> it affects the answer, the old USB IR device was originally for IRDA
> communication with a Palm PDA.

I believe CIR (ie TV/MCE remotes) is a different format to irda. I'll
leave you to google both terms and find out more.