ACTiSYS ACT-IR2002UL User manual

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ACT-IR2002UL/ACT-IR4002US
IrReadyTM FIR USB Adapter
User’s Manual
ACT-IR2002UL ACT-IR4002US
April 7, 2014
Version. 1.0.6
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All Rights Reserved
Warning! Please Install Driver BEFORE you
plug in the Dongle to USB port, for MAC & all
Windows OS unless your PC is Windows 7 or
8 which is plug and play already.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
FOR THE FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT:
PRODUCT NAME: _IrReady™ USB ADAPTER
MODEL NO.: ACT-IR2002UL/ACT-IR4002US
IS HEREWITH CONFIRMED AND FOUND TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF CFR 47
PART 15 REGULATION.
THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE
FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS:
(1) THIS DEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE AND,
THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPTANY INTERFERENCE RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE
THAT MAY CAUSE UNDESIRED OPERATION.
NOTE: Must be used with shielded cable only.
FOR YOU RECORDS
For your assistance in reporting this product in case of loss or theft, please record below the model
number and serial, which are located on the bottom of the case. Please retain this information.
Model Number Serial Number
Date of Purchase Place of Purchase
All indicated copyrights and trademarks in the following pages are the properties of their respective
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
REVISION HISTORY........................................................................................................................................................... 4
1INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................................... 6
2PACKAGING CHECK LIST .................................................................................................................................... 6
3SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS..................................................................................................................................... 6
4BIOS SETUP ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
5DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP/2000/ME/98SE........................................................................ 7
6DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 8/7/VISTA (32 & 64 BIT)............................................................. 8
7DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR MAC OS INTEL BASED PC.......................................................................... 10
8CHECK DRIVER INSTALLATION IN WINDOWS 8/7/VISTA/XP/2000/ME................................................. 13
9CHECK DRIVER INSTALLATION IN MAC OS................................................................................................ 14
10 DRIVER UN-INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP ......................................................................................... 14
11 DRIVER UN-INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 8/7/VISTA (32 & 64 BIT).................................................... 16
12 DRIVER UN-INSTALLATION IN MAC OS ........................................................................................................ 17
13 MANUALLY UPDATE THE DRIVER IN WINDOWS XP/ VISTA /7 / 8 ......................................................... 18
14 IRCOMM2K DRIVER AND THE VIRTUAL COM PORT................................................................................ 22
15 TROUBLE SHOOTING........................................................................................................................................... 25
16 SPECIFICATION..................................................................................................................................................... 26
17 PRECAUTIONS........................................................................................................................................................ 28
18 WARRANTY INFORMATION .............................................................................................................................. 29
19 CONTACT INFORMATION .................................................................................................................................. 30

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REVISION HISTORY
Revision History
Revision Date Comment
1.0.0 6/26/2009 Initial released
1.0.1 6/25/2010 Windows 7 update and Added chapter for guide to update the driver
manually in Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
1.0.2 7/02/2010 Combined ACT-IR2002UL and ACT-IR4002US User’s Manual
1.0.3 7/30/2010 Updated Driver and installation procedure for Windows O.S
1.0.3.1 8/4/2010 Added chapter of IrCOMM2K driver & Virtual COM port
1.0.4 5/12/2011 Updated to single click & silent installer driver for Win XP/Vista/Win7
32 & 64 bit OSes
1.0.5 3/5/2014 Updated Windows Support which includes Win 8
1.0.5.1 3/21/2014 Added IR4002US in the 1st paragraph of chapter 8 Check Driver
1.0.6 4/7/2014 Updated screen shot in Installation step, & Add or Remove
Programs. Updated FCC declaration chapter.
ACTiSYS reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products herein to improve reliability,
function or design. ACTiSYS does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of any product or
circuit described herein.
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1 INTRODUCTION
ACT-IR2002UL & ACT-IR4002US are advanced Infrared USB adapters to replace the serial port
peripheral through USB port.
ACT-IR4002US is the thumb size version of ACT-IR2002UL. The latter has build in USB cable while the
former, like a flash disk, has only build in USB connector so that it becomes more compact to be carried.
They are also the next generation of ACT-IR2000UL/ ACT-IR4000US respectively. You will find no any
functional difference between them except the new generation has new driver and more flexible to use.
Features :
Supports all Windows from Win98 up to Win8 (32 & 64 bit), Win CE 4.2 & 5.0 (USB host), Mac 10.x
(both Intel & Power PC based) and Linux.
WHQL certified.
Fully compliant to USB specification 1.1 and IrDA®specification 1.4
Full-speed (12 Mbps) USB device operation
Supports FIR (4Mbps), MIR (1.152 Mbps) and all SIR speeds (9.6, 19.2, 38.4, 57.6 and 115.2 kbps).
Bus-powered device. Obtain power from USB port. No external power supply required.
Low power consumption in standby mode (Standby current 20 mA).
Not occupy PC's COM or Parallel port and has no complicated hardware port and resource setting
and conflict, such as IO address / IRQ / DMAnumbers.
2 PACKAGING CHECK LIST
The package includes:
A) ACT-IR2002UL B) ACT-IR4002US
1. ACT-IR2002UL USB Dongle with built in USB
cable.
2. Installation CD for Driver and User’s manual.
1. ACT-IR4002US USB Dongle
2. USB Cable
3. Installation CD for Driver and User’s manual.
3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
1. Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/8, Win CE 4.2 & 5.0 (USB host), Mac 10.x (both Intel
& Power PC based) and Linux
2. One unoccupied USB port.
4 BIOS SETUP
Before you use this device, you MUST enable your computer USB port in BIOS Settings.

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5 DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP/2000/ME/98SE
1. Insert the driver CD, It
will automatically
initialize the driver
installation wizard as
shown. Or manually
browse CD to double
click “setup.exe” for this
installation.
2.The Installer will install
ACT-IR2002UL /
ACT-IR4002US driver
without any user action.
The installer will exit
without any prompts after
successful installation
3.Now plug the
ACT-IR2002UL. /
ACT-IR4002US dongle It
will pop up a Bubble
Window : “Found New
Hardware” as shown in the
figure. Then this bubble
window will show
“USB-Infrared Adapter”
after completing this
procedure.

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6 DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 8/7/VISTA (32 & 64 BIT)
Note: Windows 8/7/Vista actually has its Native drivers for you. You can just Plug and Play and
Windows will auto find it.So you can skip this chapter. Yet, you can still follow below procedure just in
case you fail to find the proper native driver.
1. Insert the driver CD, It
will automatically
initialize the driver
installation wizard as
shown
2. The Installer will install
the driver. After this step
completes, you will see
“Completed” window.
3. Please click Finish to
close it.

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4. Now plug the dongle
ACT-IR2002UL./
ACT-IR4002US It will
pop up a Bubble
Window : “Installing
device driver software”,
which will display as
“USB-Infrared Adapter”
after installed
successfully as right
figure.

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7 DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR MAC OS INTEL BASED PC
IMPORTANT: Please install driver BEFORE you plug in ACT-IR2002UL / ACT-IR4002US
to USB port.
1. Insert the CD, Double
click the package file
MCS7780DriverDisk.
pkg for installing the
driver or go to
Applications and
double click the
installer and browse
for the
MCS7780DriverDisk.p
kg
2. An installer wizard will
popup. Click Continue to
start the installation.

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3. Select the Destination
volume for the software
to install. Click
“Continue” to start the
installation.
4. Click “install” to proceed
further.
5. A message window pops
up informing that the
system requires you to
restart the system after
the installation. Press
“Continue Installation”

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6. Click on “Restart” to
finish installing the driver.
This completes the Installation of the driver.

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8 CHECK DRIVER INSTALLATION IN WINDOWS 8/7/VISTA/XP/2000/ME
From Device Manager, you can see “USB-Infrared Adapter” under “Infrared devices. This confirms
correct detection of ACT-IR2002UL/IR4002US.
Device Manager under Windows XP
Device Manager under Windows 8/7/Vista

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9 CHECK DRIVER INSTALLATION IN MAC OS
The driver installation can be confirmed by typing “kextstat" in the terminal window.
On successful installation, "com.mosChip.driver.moschipIrDA" can be seen in the loaded driver.
10 DRIVER UN-INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP
IMPORTANT: Please keep ACT-IR2002UL/ACT-IR4002US plugged into the computer until
prompted to remove it.
1. Open the Control Panel
and select Add or
Remove Programs.
2. Select “MCS7780
USB-Infrared Adapter
Windows Drivers“ from
the list. Click Remove
button to begin the
uninstallation process.

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. To continue, click the
ninstall
r.
3
Yes button to u
ACT-IR2002UL /
ACT-IR4002US Adapte
4. It will start the
Uninstallation. It will then
finish/exit without any
further user action.

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11 DRIVER UN-INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 8/7/VISTA (32 & 64 BIT)
1. From Control Panel
=>Programs &
Features, select
“MCS7780
USB-Infrared
Adapter Windows
Drivers”, click
“Uninstall”.
2. It will ask you to
confirm this step.
Answer Yes.
3. Then it will complete
the Uninstallation.
Click Finish to close
the window.

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12 DRIVER UN-INSTALLATION IN MAC OS
1. To un-install the driver, “moschipIrDA.kext”, “MCS7780DriverDsk” files must be deleted from the
following location.
2. Finder Current Partition System Library ---> Extensions moschipIrDA.kext (Delete the file /
Move to Trash) Finder Current Partition Library ---> Receipts MCS7780DriverDsk.pkg (Delete
the file / Move to Trash)
3. Reboot the system to complete the un-installation procedure.

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13 MANUALLY UPDATE THE DRIVER IN WINDOWS XP/ VISTA /7 / 8
Sometimes the device may not work due to improper installation or driver conflict or some other reasons.
If the driver does not get installed properly, Device Manager may get some yellow exclamation sign (i.e. )
beside “Moschip 7780-USBFIR Adapter“or “USB Device“. Then user needs to update the driver manually.
1). Go to Device Manager>, right click on already installed driver as shown in below figure 1 and
then click Update Driver.
Figure 1: Device Manager – Driver not installed properly
2). Now, as shown in below figure 2 select second option “ Yes, this time only” and Click “Next”
Figure 2: Hardware Update Wizard.
3) Now select the option “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)” and click “Next”.

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Figure 3: Install from a list or specific location
4) Select “Don’t Search. I will choose the driver to install” and click “Next”.
Figure 4: I will choose the driver to install.
5) Select “Infrared devices” as Hardware Type and click “Next”.

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Figure 5: Select Infrared devices as Hardware Type.
6) Click on “Have Disk”
Figure 6: Select Infrared Device
7) Now give the location of the driver path. This path depends on where you keep the inf and sys
file for Windows OS (i.e. from the ACT-IR2002UL/40002US CD or your local machine). After
selecting new path, click OK.