Awooga!!! » xir http://awooga.nl how hard can it be? Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:46:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Adding infrared to the Xbox http://awooga.nl/adding-ir-to-the-xbox http://awooga.nl/adding-ir-to-the-xbox#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:43:06 +0000 Q http://www.awooga.nl/adding-ir-to-the-xbox/ Xbox XIR Easy KitThe original Xbox makes, after a great games console, a fantastic versatile media player with the help of Xbox Media Center, or XBMC. You will need to chip or softmod your Xbox (there are a million guides/opinions on the internet so do some Googling) and a copy of the XBMC application. To fully appreciate XBMC, you also need to buy the DVD playback kit which allows you to control the Xbox using a remote control. The only problem is that Microsoft in its infinite wisdom decided that it doesn’t need the facility to switch the Xbox on remotely. As we are a generation of couch potatoes that is obviously not on!




Various solutions have been invented, but by far the easiest and most elegant one is the XIR Easy Kit, available from www.XIR.us. At $35.65 (£18.68 at today’s rate) it also makes it a bit of a bargain, so there really is no reason to fiddle with anything else.

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