SageTV suddenly stops receiving usb-uirt IR input

[dinki]

I posted a similar input problem here, but this time the problem is with my usb-uirt so I thought I'd post a dedicated thread for this issue.

Since posting my original question, I've switched away from using my usb-uirt with girder sending SageTV keypresses to using the usb-uirt with SageTV natively. This works great for the most part. Unfortunately, I've had two occassions where SageTV stops processing IR signals received from the usb-uirt. I'm not certain about the first time (a week ago) but this last time happened this morning. The SageTV machine was working fine when I went to bed last night but did not respond to IR this morning. The machine is an 'always on' machine. I tried exiting SageTV and then restarting but it still did not work. I went into Windows Device Manager and disabled then enabled the usb-uirt then restarted SageTV and everything started working again.

I was running the usb-uirt with girder setup for over a year without ever experiencing this problem. I'm running the latest SageTV beta and the usb-uirt is using the driver downloaded from their homepage.

As you can imagine, this is a real downer and any suggestions on debugging the problem is much appreciated.

[dinki]

Anyone? Should I move this official support? Thanks.

[CollinR]

Reroute your cabling away from sources of interference, HV power, power supplies and the like.

[dinki]

Originally Posted by CollinR

Reroute your cabling away from sources of interference, HV power, power supplies and the like.

My HTPC is in a dedicated media closet.

[CollinR]

So is mine, so is the power supply for the servers and a HV wall outlet and the transformers in my amps.

[dinki]

So you've experienced this problem as well and that is how you solved it or is this more of a general advice thing?

[CollinR]

Yes it's an easy fix, becareful of the emitter wires too.