Will a PVR-500 work with a Hauppauge A415-HPG remote? If so anything special I will need to know to get it to work. TIA

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Not without some kind of IR sensor.

What is a good source for one of these? Remote I have has some sort of IR sensor with a 1/8 inch jack and seems to have two types of emitters both attach to the same jack. Is there a place on the pvr-500 to attach an sensor?
iIf so would this do?

Thanks

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No there isn't. That's exactly the problem. The MCE versions of the Hauppauge PVR cards are meant to be used with a seperate IR sensor. The do not support one organically. The dongle you have is meant to be plugged into a PVR-150 (non-MCE) card which has a matching connector (it's actually the next size smaller than 1/8th" so you don't mix it up with the stereo input on those cards).

You probably need to obtain something like a serial port IR sensor.

Would the IR receiver from a ACK-571 wireless keyboard also function as a IR receiver for a remote?

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A learning remote that could be trained to send the same codes produced by the keyboard, yes.

The A415-HPG, no.

Unlike a serial port IR receiver, it's not a general purpose devices. It's hardwired to receive a very specific set of codes and turn them into key and mouse events without any OS software being involved.