Somehow I couldn’t find the answer - have anybody tried to use USB UIRT as a receiver to get IR code and trigger a scene on Vera?
I use Harmony anyways to control AV components…
There was a post from somebody else who wanted this, and I think between the requester and Florin, they’d worked out that Vera was capable of seeing the USB UIRTs output in the luaupnp log. I think there was even a Mantis for it too! I’ll have a look shortly to see if I can find it.
Which implies there’s no easy way 
I was looking for any non-PC device capable of receiving IR and doing HTTP GET, well, without compiling kernel - no luck.
Could the Keene Electronics KIRA help
Has anything changed on this front? I have a USB-UIRT and I would like it to receive a signal from my remote and have that trigger a scene.
Vera doesn’t receive IR, it is one way only as a transmitter. Works great as a sender I use it to send x-10 signals but it will not receive as far as I know. I have used a USB-UIRT for over 10 years, used to use it years ago with Homeseer and Eventghost on an HTPC.
I ordered a VRCZ4-MRZ Leviton VRCZ4-MRZ-Wave 4-Button Zone/Load Controller that can take a IR input. I just got it yesterday but have not installed it yet. Hopefully it does what I want.
OK so you are “sending” IR signals with the Vera not receiving, that should work fine. Your earlier post said you wanted to “receive” a signal with USB-UIRT and have the Vera trigger a scene, which will not work unless I misunderstood something - the USB-UIRT is a receiver/transmitter but Vera is transmit only. If you are sending IR with Vera through a USB-UIRT to your new Levitons that should work.
Let us know how it goes.
haworld - I just want to trigger a z-wave scene with my Home Theater Master MX-800 remote. I have the VRCZ4-MRZ installed and scenes set up in my Vera 2. Everything is working well with one exception; for some reason I my MX-800 is not learning the IR signals from the Leviton VRMR1-SG vizia rf + remote! The range of the vizia remote is only about 6 feet and I don’t want to have to use a second remote.
I am getting close, I just need to figure out if my MX-800 is capable of learning/producing the required IR codes.
OK I see what you are trying to do now and it should be possible. I use an MX-500 and if your 800 can do half of what mine can, there should be no problem. First though have you got the scenes triggering correctly with your Leviton VRMR1? If that is working then you will need to learn the IR codes from the VRMR1 into your MX800. There is no guarantee this can be done but most likely you can do it as long as the VRMR1 does not use toggle codes, then you will be in trouble. Please let me know if it is triggering scenes correctly with Vera using your VRMR1 first all by itself.
Yes I have the scenes working correctly. I am able to learning the IR signals from the Leviton remote but unfortunately the IR signal produced by the MX-800 is not triggering the scene. I will keep playing with it.
Getting closer. I can trigger scene 2 off from across the room with my MX-800 remote! Way better range than the Leviton remote! Not sure why the other 7 scenes are not working with it.
Good for you, glad you got it working, if you have one you will get the others. Also you may want to try EventGhost on your PC and a USB IR receiver like USB-UIRT, that will help you get those IR codes exactly as they were meant because EG will give you the code then you just blast it to your MX800. Used it for years very good.
Keep us informed of your results.
After many of learning attempts I thought i finally got all of the 4 scene on and off commands programmed. When I pressed test in the XM editor the functions worked but when I downloaded the program it didn’t. I will keep playing with it.
In addition to ON and OFF for each of the 4 button, the Leviton IR remote has a DIM, BRT, A, B, C, and D button. Is there any way I can utilize these other buttons to trigger additional scenes or actions?
You could if the remote you are using can learn functions to individual buttons. The MX800 I am sure will do that, not sure about the Leviton remote though. If you are using the MX800, you will have to see if the Leviton remote has Ir codes already programmed into it using something like EventGhost. If it does, then just program it into the mx800.
Only problem is, what commands are you going to send the the Ir receiver (your leviton switch)? You would have to know what ir command the lev remote is sending before you learn it into the mx800.
Ok - I finally got it all working. My problem was that I did not understand how the button sequences worked on the remote. I was wrongly under the assumption that the 1, 2, 3 and 4 buttons toggled which scene was being controlled on the remote. In actuality, those buttons send out an IR blast and toggle which scene is being controlled on the switch. I just had to make a macro for each scene that I wanted to controll with my MX-800 by combining one of the the numbers (1-4) followed by a pause and then either “off” or “on” depending on what action I was programming.
Excellent! Nice going, glad you got it working.