Comments on: How to: Build your own Gyration Media Center remote

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:08:47 +0000

This is a remote to end all remotes! Like a lot of modern households, mine has switched to a PC based entertainment center. My daughters and I watch hours of videos on Hulu, Netflix and Youtube. With this remote, we don’t have to constantly get up to search. Instead we can search and control the videos from our sofa with the gyration action and even check our FaceBook pages. It also works as a great TV remote so instead of 10 remotes, we only need this one. I have Windows 7 and it has been working consummately. Very easy to install and use. I found a super deal from the Red Planet Trading Co.

http://www.redplanettrading.com/Genuine-Dell-Microsoft-CX071-Premium-Gyration-In-Air-Mouse-LCD-Remote

By: Siobhan Clift

Siobhan Clift — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:18:35 +0000

amazing stuff thanx

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:09:43 +0000

If anyone’s interested in the remote and the RH515 card, I have a few sets available.

e-mail smalldog@newbill.com if interested.

By: b3nz0n8

b3nz0n8 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:38:45 +0000

@ mathur…

Feel free to check out the forum:

google: m2010 avsforum.com

http://w w w.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=893705

Excellent work Hack A Day (b3t@)- Joey Celis

~b3nz0n8

By: b3nz0n8

b3nz0n8 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:32:11 +0000

Thanks Hack A Day (B3t@)

~b3nz0n8

By: Mathur

Mathur — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:52:30 +0000

I am able to make it work finally except the gyration. I can see the play lists on the lcd display, play songs, control the media center.
But… the gyration is not working. but the right and the left mouse buttons work fine. Can anyone help me fixing it?

By: Mathur

Mathur — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:35:59 +0000

I have purchased both yy993 and the remote. connected the yy993 to the USB as indicated in this page. Installed the driver (downloaded from the link indicated in this site). Nothing happened. I restarted my mediacenter machine and it says… no operating system found. Everything was fine before installing the driver.

I am using Vista ulitmate
Please help…..

By: Snow

Snow — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:34:32 +0000

I purchased both the dongle (yy993, from dell) and the remote from Ebay. I was able to get it set up and it seems like most everything is working fine. However I am getting an error on the remote “Application Unavailable, Launch from icon on system tray.”

Can anyone explain this to me and let me know what is the problem, because the remote icon seems to be fine and the remote shows connected so I don’t know what is going on.

Overall thanks for this, It looks like it will be awesome once i get the kinks ironed out.

By: Burns

Burns — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:47:53 +0000

Now if only Logitech would include this in their Harmony Remotes they would be the complete solution.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:37:12 +0000

I purchased the wireless card from the dell outlet store (part number YY993) and the remote control from eBay. Both arrived today (19-NOV-2008) and it took me less than half an hour to get this thing up and running. This is the best remote control for a computer I have ever used.

Thank you for this great, quick and easy hack!

By: silver

silver — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:42:04 +0000

RE: is this right?

i ordered 2 and they were just the bare cards … no remote … o well

By: silver

silver — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:06:20 +0000

this is it right?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Wireless_WiFi/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=YY993

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:12:08 +0000

I ordered the yy993 from Dell as well. I was at work when the UPS delivery came, so it is at the appartment office now waiting for me to pick it up. I just checked the invoive and it does list the part as CX071. I’m even more excited to get home and pick it up after reading Crakavelli’s post. I’ll be sure to post here and let everyone know what’s in the box.

By: Crakavelli

Crakavelli — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:43:55 +0000

I ordered a YY993 and they sent me the entire remote kit (CX071), all for $22 shipped. This kit usually sells for $159 refurb so it is a steal. The receiver was the USB type so no wiring was involved. If anyone is thinking of doing this hack, order the adapter before buying a remote, you might get it for free.

By: Tron

Tron — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:09:53 +0000

I ordered the YY993 from Dell and got the setup to work immediately on two of my systems. There is some lag when viewing a large media collection on the LCD, however this was when it was plugged into a USB1.1 and at 20 feet away.