[mythtv-users] Re: Recommended Remote Controls?

[John F DeLuca]

I personally use a Tivo remote as it is a remote I am very familiar with, 
has distinctive feel buttons (different shapes), is well matched for PVR 
functionality, and can be bought alone ($30).  The TIVO34 in the philips 
folder at lirc.org works well for the Tivo remote (the TIVO file did NOT 
work well....it has to be the TIVO34).  But the IR receiver is the tricky 
part...not the remote.  Since I am not  well versed in resistors, etc, I 
just went to CompUSA and bought a SnapStream PC USB remote ($30 with 
rebate which is now expired I think / $40 now).  While the remote is fine 
and well suited for PVR, I discarded it and just use the receiver with my 
Tivo remotes.  The only trick is that in order to get my Snapstream remote 
to work with lirc, I had to install an lirc patch as follows:

Remote control URL: 
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=303538&pfp=srch1

Since I followed Jarod's Fedora Redhat guide, I installed lirc as per his 
apt-get commands.  Not sure this was necessary.
from  http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/#lirc
# export KERNEL=`uname -r`
# apt-get install lirc-kmdl-$KERNEL
# apt-get install lirc


I then needed to get a CVS version as the StreamZap 
from  http://www.lirc.org/cvs.html
# cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lirc login
(press enter when prompted for password)
# cvs -z8 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lirc co lirc

I then needed to download the patch for StreamZap
from 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/szremote/streamzap-0.04.diff?download

I then applied the patch and compiled the driver by following the 
instructions here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=177518

Finally, I edited my /etc/modules.conf to include
alias char-major-61 lirc_streamzap

(I also removed/commented out the other lirc statements in my 
/etc/modules.conf)

I've sucessfully done it several times as it needs to be done for each 
kernel upgrade I do.  The only problem I had was with the KnoppMyth 
distribution....under Jarod's Fedora Core 1, it works every time.
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