Setup guide

Generic Serial IR Receiver
The Generic Serial IR Receiver is a generic serial port driver with adjustable settings for devices which conform to
the RS-232 protocol standard.
Configuration
Select the COM port where the device is attached. The Setup button opens the driver configuration dialog with the
following three property pages:
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Port Settings
Adjust the COM port settings.
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Device Settings
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Advanced Settings
Hardware timing values in milliseconds. The default settings are fail-safe, but require some time for initialization.
Decrease the values to have faster device initialization.
Init String Initialization character sequence sent to the receiver
Response
Response character sequence to be received from the receiver after transmitting the Init String
indicating proper initialization.
IR code
length
Length in bytes of a receiver signal for one remote control button depression.
If your receiver uses signals of variable lengths (like URCR), use higher values ( e.g. 255 ).
Increase the value until signals end with "00".
Tolerance
Adjust this value if your receiver does not always send the same code for one IR signal. This
value is a statistical error value without a special meaning. In general, the higher this value, the
more variation may appear in the signal, and the more unsafe is the recognition and the risk that
a command will be chosen that do not apply to the remote button. Try values between 0 and 16
for safe recognition.
Learn
samples
Specify the number of samples taken when learning a button. You may increase this value to
have safer code recognition.
Reset Time to wait until the microcontroller circuit is reset/powered down
PowerUp Time to wait for powering up the microcontroller circuit.
Transmit Delay
Delay to insert between transmitting two characters of the Init String. Only used if the device
requires an initialization string.
Receive Delay
Delay to insert between receiving two characters of the Response. Only used if the device
sends a response string.