The USB-UIRT allows HouseBot to both receive and transmit infrared signals. The USB-UIRT can:
Receive signals from the remote controls you already have that will control HouseBot to perform various actions.
'Learn' from remotes you already have and Transmit a duplicate of these signals or any combination of other signals from HouseBot. For example, your PC could automatically turn ON your VCR and tune it to channel 3 from a single IR code reception.
The USB-UIRT uses standard 'Pronto' formatted coding for storing IR codes. This enables you to use codes available from the Web (such as RemoteCentral.com) or from other remotes (such as the Philips Pronto) to control all of your equipment with Remote (IR) receivers (including special 'discrete' remote codes your brand-name remote doesn't include!). For example, the USB-UIRT could transmit the discrete 'Input 3' code to your TV to directly switch it to input 3, rather than cycling through all of the inputs.
According to the help, you should be able to send and receive.
