MCE Remote Turn ON HTPC FOUND! w/DONGLE in front of your CASE!

(2012-06-02 04:41)Dougie Fresh Wrote:  That's cool to know you don't need the special ASRock dongle. It's also needs to be plugged into the right place on the motherboard too.

Very cool because the ASRock dongle sucks... bad.... well that or the remote. I had no range with the ASRock remote/dongle. I could power on from across the room but for actual control I always had to be within 4 feet or so to have any reliability and fluidity with the remote functions.

I switched to the internal CIR sensor mentioned in a few other posts and repinned it to work with the ASRock motherboard. I also got it with their universal, learning remote which has a backlight. Only got that because of the backlight and it works great. I wish I'd known about another dongle option though because making a spot to mount the CIR internally and cut into my case for it was a bit more than I wanted to do for it.

(2012-06-02 04:56)Beer40oz Wrote:  

(2012-06-02 04:31)helpermonkey Wrote:  purchased!!!!!

What type of MCE remote you have? or are you planning to use the Rosewil that comes with the dongle?

Have a few but will probably use my Harmony One if push comes to shove.

To be honest I'm still fine with walking over and turning on the PC manually.

I figure that those essential muscles still need to stay limber since as of yet the beer still aren't fetching themselves from the fridge either...

(2012-06-02 07:25)thethirdnut Wrote:  To be honest I'm still fine with walking over and turning on the PC manually.

I figure that those essential muscles still need to stay limber since as of yet the beer still aren't fetching themselves from the fridge either...

I had kids so they could get me a beer from the fridge

(2012-06-02 07:25)thethirdnut Wrote:  To be honest I'm still fine with walking over and turning on the PC manually.

I figure that those essential muscles still need to stay limber since as of yet the beer still aren't fetching themselves from the fridge either...

Me too.... but once you have it .... it's a totally different story....

Now I am more lazy!

It's nice when you are now finally sitting down after a long day of work and just reach for the remote.....

looks like your IR receiver supports the "MCIR keyboard protocol" ,,,
thats why it allows to cold boot the A75M-ITX mobo!!

so i guess these would also be good to buy aswell
- AVS Gear MG-IR01BK
- Rosewill RRC-126

From what I'm reading you need to have the combination of the Asrock motherboard and this type of dongle for it to work correct?

My MSI E350A1-E45 says it only supports power on from S5 using PS/2 so I'm thinking I need to get a SIMEREC.COM but there's no way I'm dropping $40.00 more on this budget build. I might as well take that $40.00 and buy a G530 spend an additional $90.00 on a new ITX board and try to sell my MSI board.

Just a question..... This is great and all but why not just use standby? Beats waiting the 20 secs for even a quick windows boot doesn't it? Almost any rc6 USB dongle will do that. I would guess it uses only a couple of watts on standby... Also, what about hibernate if you really want zero power off?

I ask because I am much more used to xbmc Linux .. But have moved my A6 truly silent to Windows as the video drivers are a lot better....so far standby seems like a winner!

Hibernate with the SSD optimization is not there for me..... standby it's a choice.... but I like turning my HTPC all the way off.... so when it starts it's fresh.... a few people had trouble with standby once in a while.... and 20 seconds... what is 20 seconds... nothing.

Really the point is... this DONGLE rocks....

+1,
Hibernation wont give you ZERO power OFF bossanova808
and it'll also ware out your SSD faster since it needs to write stuff on it
before actually hibernating..
so, S3 or S5 is recommended when using an SSD.
not S4....