Slingbox has worked fine for 4 years....but, i didn't need the IR setup.....I was able to just feed the cable from the wall into the slingbox and receive the 80 some odd channels.....in china and now i am residing in germany....slingbox home base is in california...

but,

 Comcast has now cut the bandwidth in half and so now have only 30 some odd channels.....to get the full 80+ channels they sent a DVA box(i think it is called).... now of course i can only see one channel (channel 3) and whatever the DVA station is set for.   My kid is at the homebase of the slingbox and has connected up the IR cable......so now i am looking to get the IR to respond to my remote control here in germany......

what are my next steps?

paperwork says that when installing the slingplayer software the setup wizard attempts to communicate with the device using the IR control cable.  The kid has sent me a picture of the IR cables setup on the DVA box and it seems OK to me.  We know the code to the DVA box is 911.

does my kid have to setup a new "slingplayer launch" file on the desktop computer which is connected to the slingbox home network?  can she get this file setup from off the slingmedia.com "downloads" tab?  and if so will the setup wizard automatically sense the IR cable in the jack and respond accodingly and peform some IR setups?

any other tips i would appreciate....i am hoping that if she can get the IR setup to work at the home base on the desktop, which is connected to the same network, then i will automatically be able to use my computer's virtual remote control here in germany to control the DVA in california....... is this a reasonable assumption?

thnx