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It looks like they are still selling this to make easy money but it has no support for newer programs. It worked pretty good when I bought it a couple of years ago. Good programs like J. Apparently the manufacturer made there money and quit supporting this remote. It works for a lot of standard and older Windows programs but has no support for any programs made in the last 3 years. River Media Center just give you a message that it is not supported. If you go to their web site you will find that no updates have been made to their software in 5 years.
Dozens of times. I have so far tried to install this remote on 3 computers with 3 operating systems (XP, vista, and 7). I know a fair amount about hardware and software, maybe not enough to head an IT department, but certainly enough to get an entry level IT job. And I did it on other computers. They do not have an address I can find, they do not have a phone number, and they WILL NOT answer your email. The directions are laughable.
DOES NOT WORK.So I go to complain to the company, because by now it is too late for Amazon to accept a return. It simply does not work. I also searched manually for the drivers, I scoured the internet, I looked through the CD, I tried to edit and manually install the drivers, I asked my even more technical computer programmer friends. After you install from the CD (or with the updated software from online which I tried as well), it says to plug in your remote and allow Windows to automatically find/install the drivers.Well I tried that. And I restarted and tried that. DO NOT EXPECT TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE MAKERS OF THE STREAMZAP.
Period.
The buttons on the remote are adequate. I purchased this for mythtv. Top reason I choose this was support out of the box for KnoppMyth R5.5. For the price, this remote & usb receiver is the best in it's class. It has great IR range so it works great in larger rooms.
Worked right out o fhe box with my ubuntu (mytybuntu). (Never tried windows compatibility).Like it a lot, works for everything that I need it for with my system.(One little thing: They could place the buttons different, so it would not slide off my couch/chair/armrest all the time when I rest it upside-down).Can only recommend.
Works great with mythtv on linux. Only complaint is it's a little hungry when it comes to batteries.
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