IR Blaster, help getting this to work!

[Tynker]

First, appologies if this is not an appropriate place for this, but over on the HTPC forums people glaze over when I mention wantint to control my TV from my PC, rather than just remote controlling my PC...

My mame cabinet has a 27" Television as the "Monitor". Problem with this is the power button and remote IR eye are covered when the bezel is in place making turning on/off the tv a pain in the rear.

I have the IR Blaster hardware that I know will control this television, however, I do not want to install Beyond TV (the only software I have found that will work with this device)

What I am searching for is a piece of software that will allow me to take keyboard keystrokes and convert them to IR to control the television. Has anyone done this?

[Tom Speirs]

First, appologies if this is not an appropriate place for this, but over on the HTPC forums people glaze over when I mention wantint to control my TV from my PC, rather than just remote controlling my PC...

My mame cabinet has a 27" Television as the "Monitor".  Problem with this is the power button and remote IR eye are covered when the bezel is in place making turning on/off the tv a pain in the rear.

I have the IR Blaster hardware that I know will control this television, however, I do not want to install Beyond TV (the only software I have found that will work with this device)

What I am searching for is a piece of software that will allow me to take keyboard keystrokes and convert them to IR to control the television. Has anyone done this?

I would have thought yourll get more help on that forum, but Im assuming you've looked at "Girder"? I don't know much about it other than its supposed to do this kind of stuff.

[Vynce]

Girder should do it as Tom suggested. I still use one of the older versions from when it was free.

[wblake0000]

You could also solder two wires, (one on each side of the power switch on the TV circuit board) and wire it to a momentary switch on the outside of your arcade machine. That's what I did and it works well if you are handy with a soldering iron. (Even if you're not it's still pretty simple to do and nice looking) Of course that's a hardware not software solution but whatever you want.