[mythtv-users] Newbie

[Jason Ramey]

I built my own, for about 13 dollars worth of parts from Radio Shack. I'm by
no means a wiz with the soldering iron and it only took me about 20 minutes.
A good howto is posted here:

http://www.manoweb.com/alesan/lirc/

If you are interested, I can also post a parts list for Radio Shack
(assuming that you are in the US).

Jason Ramey
webmaster at permutation.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Parish" <rparish at digitalwebzone.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie


> Thanks Jason for the Reply..
>
> I see a lot of links regarding the IR blaster.. What is suggested for an
IR
> receiver?
>
> Thanks
> Ray
>
>
>
>
> On 4/12/03 6:07 PM, "Jason Tackaberry" <tack at auc.ca> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:50, Ray Parish wrote:
> >> Ok I have MythTV installed on RedHat 9, Everything seems to be
working.. My
> >> question is where can I find documentation on what keyboard strokes are
used
> >> to control mythtv. (i.e. pause live TV, rewind, menu, etc.)
> >
> > There's a file called keys.txt in the source distribution.
> >
> >> Is the theory of MythTV to, have a remote that would control MythTV,
then
> >> MythTV would run that perl script to an IR blaster to have cable or sat
box
> >> change the actual channel? If this is the case, would one need 2 IR
> >> blasters?
> >
> > No, one IR receiver, and one IR blaster.  But yes, that's the theory,
> > unless you don't have a digital cable or satellite receiver and you let
> > your tv card do the tuning.
> >
> > Jason.
>
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