[mythtv-users] best remote to buy for mythtv

[Lane Schwartz]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:05:19 -0500, Evan Burrows <eburrows at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking to by a new remote and I have a few questions.  Currently
> I am using 3 remotes to control my tv stuff.  One for the tv itself
> (turn it off/on etc, I also have a cable feed going to the analog port
> on my tv so i can watch some tv when the pvr350 is recording off my
> cable box), the grey Hauppauge remote for my pvr350 and the remote for
> my scientic atlantica cable box.  So are there any decent remote
> combos out there that will be an ir receiver (to capture the commands
> sent to control the pvr350), and an ir transmitter because I would
> have to transmit a signal from this receiver to the the receiver on my
> cable box so that my mythbox could control my cable box.  I have seen
> the posts that build a simple ir transmitter from a few parts from
> radio shack and am willing to do that if need be but i figured since
> we are around the holiday season if i could kill a couple birds with
> one stone I might as well get an all in one package and spend a little
> money for the convenience.

Well, this recent thread has been discussing a lot of these issues:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/96754


Someone there pointed out the Niveus Media PC remote:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=80-100-651&depa=0
http://store.niveusmedia.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.2/it.A/id.4/.f

After looking at the Niveus remote, I'm thinking about getting it. It
is an RF remote for the computer, but it is also a universal IR remote
that can control TV, VCR, cable box, etc. The Niveus web page says
that it's a learning remote, so it should be able to learn how to
control your other devices from your existing remotes.

HTH,
Lane


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