USB IR stick to COM port?? - Page 2

virexeen · 02-19-2005, 06:00 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by vxcarpc

Hello. I was woindering if anyone could help.

I have my car pc running Windows XP on a Epia 800 Motherboard. I have a small USB IR device from which I would liek to use to control my pc with. I have been reading about it and most people say that once you install the USB device you can configure it to be setup as a COM port. When in install my USB device is add's a new section under my device manager called USB devices not universal serial bus. I am unable to configure anything about it. I believe somehow I can setup a USB to serial bridge so that I can setup the USB IR device to be recognized on a COM port so that all the frontend programs will find it. I know the RS232 serial IR's work fine but I want to use a USB controller.. Can anyone tell me how i can do this please or link me to some software that will do this.

thank you.

I THINK THIS MAY HELP YOU:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~kis...OMM2k/English/

Please let me know whatever result you get.

mattress · 02-19-2005, 08:07 AM

interesting stuff. I bought an IRDA dongle type thing for use with my cellphone to transfer pics and tones, etc. I'll see if I can find a way to use it with girder and a remote control.

if you search for a LIRC IR Receiver, it's very easy to build ... you need to go to radio shack and buy a DB9 serial port + casing, a capacitor, resistor, and a voltage regulator, and an IR Eyeball... (i think that's it) it's real easy ... works with girder ... costs less than $10 ... though it does take up a serial port (and I'm not sure if you can use a serial to usb adapter with it..)

hotponyshoes · 03-20-2008, 06:31 PM

Bit of a bump on an old thread here but I thought it might be better than starting a new one..

I was using a infrared reciver to download data from a electrical tester to my laptop for viewing.
The IR reciver had a rs232 (com) pulg on the end of a cable which I simply plugged into my laptop.
When i got a new laptop it didn't have a com port so I used a pcicia to com card to plug it in and this worked ok.
I now have another new laptop and (having lost the pcimcia card) I just bought a usb infrared adaptor because the laptops built-in ir port wasnt assigned a com port number.
When i plugged in the usb/ir adaptor xp found it and installed it ok but it's just come up in wireless devices and still no com port number.

Having looked I have got a IrDA device (Sitecom), If I found a 'normal' IR reciver would that get given a com number?
Or, has anybody found a way to assign a com number to a IR reciver?

I don't want to control anything, only recive data.
The problem is, when I run the program I want to use it just askes me to chose a com port and unless I have one I can't run it.
Cheers!