I have been messing around with the CIMR100 for 3 hours after I got it and I can't get it to work on my Windows XP platform. I tried looking in my device manager to see if Windows thinks it is a mouse but its not there. I looked at all the other devices too. I don't think Windows even recognizes its existence. I tried it on my friend's WIN 98 and it works great but it won't work on my XP! Has anyone actually gotten it to work on an XP platform and can help me out?! Thanks!

I have and it works fine with POWER DVD XP and Mediaplayer 9 (though the functions here are limited!)

What a coincidence! I had also just bought the CIMR100 and also have the same problem. I installed the software that came with the CD and don't remember it installing drivers. So I double checked device manager, and still nothing there! Any help would be appretiated.

You install the remote control software that comes with the CD. Since it is a serial-port based device, there is no driver to install.

I just plugged one of these remotes in too, and I can't get it to do anything.
Device manager just shows COM 1, Com 2.

I use XP Pro w/SP2.

Any ideas?

I'm also running ZoneAlarm if that has anything to do with it (I don't thin it does... I've tried the remote with ZA on and off)

????

I would really like to get this remote going.

Thanks,

H.

Oh and...

I used the software that came with it...Nothing...

I tried the latest version of remote selector...still nothing!

What am I doing wrong?

H.

I have been using this remote setup with xp for over a year now.

I highly recommend you get a program called uICE... i forget what it stands for, but it rulez...
just set it up for "generic IR receiver" and it will recognize the CIMR100. You don't have to use the little remote that came with it if you get uICE... you can program uICE to accept any remote. And you can have it do just about anything. Its not the easiest of programs to figure out, but with some time and patience, it is really worth it.

I think it has a free trial... just google it... or check download.com

If anyone will read this i do not know. I have tried this what you said cybercod but uice only reconises all the buttons as one button, what am i doing wrong.

Go to General Config tab, select "Generic Serial IR Receiver."

next go to hardware setup tab,
select the com port your receiver is plugged into. If you only had one jack for it to go into, it's most likely going to be COM1.

This is where it gets fun.

Click the SETUP button on the Hardware setup tab and you get a Device Settings Box with 3 tabs: Port Settings, Device Settings, and Advanced Settings.

This is where it gets tricky. Because settings for one remote may not work for another. I can tell you what my settings are, but that doesn't mean that they will work for your remote.

on Port Settings I have:
9600
8
None
1
Enable
Enable

On Device settings I have:
neither box is checked
50
0
3

On Advanced Settings I have:
200
200
50
50
and the box at the bottom is unchecked.



If these settings do not work for the remote you are trying to set up... the ones I would suggest tweaking are

Baud rate (Port Settings Tab)
IR Code Length (Device Settings Tab)

I know very little about what these settings are all for... but these two are pretty easily understood.

Baud Rate: How fast the signal is being generated by the remote.

IR Code Length: How many seperate impulses will be considered part of the infrared code being used.

If you go through the New Remote Batch Command thingy... and you click one of the commands you've just made in the Harware Setup Tab, you'll notice a bunch of numbers on the right hand side like 78 80 78 78 f8 80 80 78 00 00

This is the IR Code that was recorded from the remote when you pushed that button.

Now if all your buttons are being recognized as one button, your IR Code Length setting is probably too short. Bump it up until you start seeing some zeroes at the end. Think of the zeros as dead air at the end of an audio track.

If you're getting like all zeros or mostly zeros, you probably wanna tweak with your Baud Rate, because the computer is either reading the signals either too fast or too slow.

It doesn't have to be an exact science.

All you're trying to do here is tweak it until each button on your remote corresponds to a different IR number sequence.

This can take some time to get just right.

If I still had the little remote that comes with the receiver I'd post the settings for it, but I lost it a long while ago, now I'm just using the AUX function on a Universal remote.

Oh, and what code you use on the universal remote doesn't matter TOO much, so long as you write it down... if your remotes batteries die, and you lose your code, you'll have to reprogram all the commands back in.


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Ok, now that you've gotten to the point where each remote button is received as unique, and you've got the batch commands in, you should save your progress.


Alt+F .... Save As... All Configurations... next...New Configuration... name it ... Finish


Now you can go back in and start learning how to program more commands in, adding applications to the ON SCREEN DISPLAY, and a whole host of other cool things. It is very configurable. In fact it is too configurable for me to put all in here... anyone has problems email me at cyberneticcodfish@yahoo.com

Oh and i believe it was

uICE = Universal Infrared Control Engine


:-)

I just found a chinese factory that makes remote controls that flip open with a keyboard inside... small, but all the keys are there.

There's no prices though... may have to buy a whole case!!

windows XP wont detect driver settings for my creative infra reciever. i know its supposed to appear as a usb serial controller, under com ports in device manager but it wont work! anyone know where i can find the specific driver for cimr 100?

can you send me Creative infra remote BUTTON CODE? Mail: ufukkizilkaya@hotmail.com

this website seems to have button codes for this remote

http://rekl.yi.org/cimr100/

--dark420bishop :)

This has been said before but some people apparently didnt catch it. This reciever is SERIAL there are no drivers, the software communicates with it directly through the serial port. Repeat, NO DRIVERS ARE NESSICARY, just a program that supports it (like uICE).

btw, this post was extremely helpful to me, thank you.

And for the credit card remote that comes with it I had to set the IR-code length to 9 for it to work completely properly (it worked for all but one button at 8).

Some of the pages I've seen about the CIMR100 claimed that you can only use the receiver with the credit-card sized remote that it ships with.

I've managed to use mine with a programmable remote, though. I set it to a code listed under "Miscellaneous", and it worked.

I'm not using the creative apps though. The codes I get don't seem to be the same as with the original remote, though. But you can figure out the codes using a terminal app (2400, 8N1), and configure LIRC or probably uICE suitably

cap2501
plz help i just recived the creative ir and creidt card size remote and i can not get any thing to work besides the volume up and down and the mute iv spend more than 5 hours on it and im itred of it and wonderin if u could help me out

i downloaded uice and have done every thing as explained above i even changed my ir to 8 and reconfigured the buttions but that did no help ? any ideas plz any one

i also have this remote and reciever i pluged it in and installed the software. i configured everything like it said but nothing happens at all. any suggestions?

Uice works nice, the program on the CD works nice as well.

Ive only been messing with it for a few minutes, but I cant seem to find a way to get the "shift" and "mouse" buttons to affect how UICE interprets the commands from "1234567890" and "Start".
It seems that the shift and mouse button the the given remote dont actually change the buttons freq's, they onyl change how the program interprets those freq's, works fine in the given program, but not for uice. And thats bothersome because I plan to use this in gentoo with LIRC. Any help?

WOOT

lol, nm, figured it out after looking around a bit more, pretty confusing program, but nice, damn LIRC is gonna be a bitch.