Creative Infra Remote (Which Frequency?)

Willems · 03-07-2003, 01:15 PM

Hello Everybody,

I bought a Creative Infra Remote to be able to use in my car, however I think the receiver is too big. Therefore I found a link on the web with a simple schematic which is a nice IR receiver. However the IR-eye has to be chosen at a certain wave-length. Does anybody have an idea about the wavelength of the Creative Infra Remote?

Thanks for the information!

Willems

m3rdpwr · 03-07-2003, 01:22 PM

If you take apart the creative receiver, you will see that it's small.

Also, I noticed that the PCB is bigger than it needs to be to accomidate screw holes.

I plan to pull mine out of the casing and cut the ends off the PCB...

It will be quite small at that point...

-Mario

ddt · 03-07-2003, 04:05 PM

I did just that. Although I'm not using it... it works.

ShinkunoNamida · 03-07-2003, 04:56 PM

same here.. I also found that my ONKYO dvd and reciever remotes both work with it.. if you find a universal remote that can be used with these then you've got a nice cheap IR reciever to use with a nice and functional remote

frodobaggins · 03-11-2003, 01:21 AM

I bought one of these too. $9

saved a ton of headaches after building my own and having 2 hours gone and a headache after tracing trash codes being sent to the pc

Loftus · 03-11-2003, 07:27 AM

i picked one up last weekend for $9.99CDN with a coupon so i couldn't pass it up. Has anyone got one of these "working" with Girder yet? I say "working" because i hear some people say it's "possible" but i have had no luck when i messed around with it. Anybody?

m3rdpwr · 03-11-2003, 07:29 AM

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Originally posted by Loftus
i picked one up last weekend for $9.99CDN with a coupon so i couldn't pass it up. Has anyone got one of these "working" with Girder yet? I say "working" because i hear some people say it's "possible" but i have had no luck when i messed around with it. Anybody?

I had some trouble too, but I downloaded a sample from girder's site, modified it for my remote and now can do a ton of things with it...

-Mario

Loftus · 03-12-2003, 08:09 AM

what sample from Girders site did you use? A plugin or one from the main page with "10 Newest Files" listed.
what programs are you using yours with?

m3rdpwr · 03-12-2003, 08:15 AM

I only saw a winamp3 one so I downloaded that one.

I had to re-work it a bit since it was pointing to wrong executables.

Once I did that, it worked like a champ.

I have full mouse functionality as well as some funky shift options that took me a little brainstorm to do.

If you are still having problems doing it, let me know and I'll email you the main part of mine...

-Mario

frodobaggins · 03-12-2003, 11:47 PM

I think what he meant was which plugin to use, use that last one in the list

uir/irman/ctinfra/ira/hollywood+

Willems · 03-13-2003, 03:35 AM

Well I opened up my receiver, and I saw that it is fairly big on the inside as well. Therefore I'll build my own receiver.

Using this schematics...

http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/remote/

I allready found out that the frequency is at 39.2 khz. Therefore a 40 Khz receiver module will suffice.

About the definitions for Girder I guess I would like to receive them as well, since I do not have an idea about how to implement the Shift functions.

Indeed the plugin mentioned is the right one. I already was able to try it with that plugin as well.

Greetings,

Pascal