Here is where you sense your remote to make sure the receiver is working.

• Click on Learn


• Give your remote a name, any name will do. I called my remote "test"


• Set the margin of error between 1% - 99%, I used 25% which is default

• Manually enter a signal gap and signal length, don't know about this. I just hit enter
• Now it ask you to press a button on your remote, If all works as planned it will sense your remote and ask you to hit the button again and again and again, 10 times in total. (If nothing happens, then it sounds like you have a problem. If you have a problem recheck wiring and or COM port settings. If no problems continue to the next step.)

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If all is working continue to learn the buttons of your remote. Just remember to learn ALL the buttons that you intend to use. That includes power, mute, #'s, fast forward, ect... You can not add buttons to it after you save it. Well I shouldn't say can not, because you can if you edit and insert more codes manually in the .cf file using a program like notepad.

• Button name? Give your button a name, any name will do. I made it simple by name button 1 "1" and so on

• After you give the button a name. It will ask you to press and hold the remote button that you have named. At this point the program will grab 64 signal samples of that button. I noticed with some remotes you have to repeatily tap the button instead of holding it down.

• Continue until all buttons are learned and then hit enter to save. I have noticed that sometimes WinLirc crashes right after saving the codes. Not to worry, just restart WinLirc, double click on the system tray icon, click reconfigure, browse, open the "1.cf" file, and hit ok.
• You can choose to analyze the codes, but you don't have to.
• Click OK to take you back to the main WinLirc screen
• Now to test your remote again. The WinLirc tray icon is gray in idle mode and turns green when a learned remote button is pressed.