[mythtv-users] One for All remote control for the XBOX

[Bruce]

Thanks for the reply.
I ended up getting the 8810w form wal-mart as well. Whats the difference 
between 8810w and 8811?
Anyway, I would realy like to know which button is the II pause button 
on the xbox remote. this button skips all the commercials. Any idea? I 
tried all my buttons.

Thansk,
Bruce

Spencer Jason E CONT DLVA wrote:

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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Has anyone used an aftermarket remote to add extra 
>>>functions to the xbox control of myth?
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> I use an after market remote with the xbox dongle, but I have
>no extra functionality, just the normal xbox remote keys.  But
>I don't have to have the xbox remote on the table anymore :)
>
>  
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>>>What I would like is to be able to add some of the keyboard 
>>>functions mapped to a remote control key that the xbox remote
>>>doesnt currently offer. Is his possible?
>>>      
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>  I'm not sure, might be able to add more options to the usb-xboxir module.
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>>>I was looking at the one for all 8910 remote. It seems like 
>>>this is a capable learning remote.
>>>      
>>>
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>  I use the 8810w so that should work, program it as a RCA DVD player (0522
>i think)
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>  
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>>I'm assuming that the xbox Myth frontends use lirc like any 
>>other Myth frontend,in which case it would be a simple matter of tweaking
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>the 
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>>frontend config to understand a new remote.
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>  Don't think the xbox uses lirc (directly), it uses the usb-xboxir kernel
>module.  If you
>  look at the source it maps the xbox keys to certain keyboard keys.  I'm
>not
>  sure if you can just add keys to the file.  I'm assuming the xbox dongle
>only
>  understands certain ir codes. 
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>>If the Xbox receiver is limited to only receiving commands 
>>from a certain remote encoding type (For example, the Hauppauge remote
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>receiver 
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>>only understands RC-5 remotes), you'll need to set up the OFA remote to
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>use the 
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>>same encoding.
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>>Unfortunately, looking at the lirc config file for the xbox at
>>http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/microsoft/Xbox, the 
>>encoding doesn't look
>>immediately familiar.
>>
>>So you have two options:
>>a)  Hope the Xbox DVD kit's IR receiver is generic and 
>>protocol-independent.  I
>>don't yet own an xbox so I can't answer this.
>>b)  Get a different USB IR receiver that is.
>>b)  
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