[mythtv-users] one IR receiver to rule them all?

[mythtv at brtb.org]

X10 appliance module *should* work, assuming the TV will power-on
automatically when it gets power. IIRC my Sony 32" saves whatever the
last state was when it lost power, the Magnavox 27" stays off until you
send it the IR code for power-on.

Something else to check.., Sony should be fine, but some of the cheaper
TVs I've seen lose all their channel programming when they lose power and
insist on that auto-programming cycle when they turn on the first time.

I'd probably do some evil hack involving another IR blaster myself...

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Chris Thompson wrote:

> Mike Jasper (e394td at comcast.net) wrote:
> > I'll have two PVR-250s, fed by two Dish Network receivers.  Can a single
> > IR receiver + a single remote be used to control both tuners, plus other
> > stuff (MythGame, MythMusic, etc)?
>
> Absolutely, because your remote doesn't control the dish tuners, Myth does.
>
> My setup, which should be complete when Fedex delivers my remote this
> afternoon, is three DirecTV tuners attached to three PVR/M179 cards in a
> backend box in my basement. The backend will control the tuners by serial
> cable, but, if I were using Dish, could do so using IR Blasters, or little
> IR LED's attached to, say, your serial port. The LIRC site has a schematic
> for an IR transmitter which is trivially small. You'll probably need to
> come up with a way to have a different IR blaster for each box, and mask
> them in such a way that each box can only see one. Otherwise changing one
> will change both.
>
> Myth has to control your boxes, otherwise it can't do scheduled recordings.
> I'm sure there's a ton of other benefits as well, but that's the big one.
>
> My front end box will be a box in a cool looking case under my TV which
> boots diskless and has no vid capture of it's own. It will have the Media
> Center Remote from newegg hooked up, and using the new drivers which Dan
> Conti whipped together. When I send a signal from the remote, the Media
> Center receiver will transmit it to lirc, lirc will tell mythfrontend,
> which will tell mythbackend.
>
> mythbackend will then pick a tuner and change that tuner's channel using
> the sony.pl script to send control commands directly to my DirecTV boxes.
>
> There's no reason that I couldn't use the remote and receiver you listed,
> and do the same thing.
>
> I chose the Media Center Remote, which will not be able to control my Sony
> TV, because the myth box is going to be the ONLY thing under the TV now,
> since I'm also taking delivery of a DVD-ROM drive today. Still working out
> how to switch the TV off and on from the remote. I'm thinking I can do it
> with an X10 module.
>
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> Chris Thompson
>
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