[mythtv-users] Need IR receiver recommendation

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Tue Nov 30 19:45:07 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:37, Jason Ramey wrote:
> Lane Schwartz wrote:
> >Jarod, is this what you mean?
> >
> >http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=80-100-851&depa=
> >0
> >
> >If so, can you confirm that it does work with Myth? The newegg
> >description says, in big red letters, "THIS IS NOT A UNIVERSAL REMOTE
> >CONTROL! THIS REMOTE WILL ONLY WORK WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP MEDIA
> >CENTER OPERATING SYSTEMS!"
>
> I'm gonna hazard to say yes, this will work. This is the latest (2005)
> version of their MCE remote, key layout is different but the receiver
> looks the same. I have one purchased early in 2004 from newegg and it
> works great. It will only work for receiving though, the IR blaster that
> comes with it is non-functional (at the moment?) To use it requires
> using at least lirc 0.7.0. That hasn't made it into the debian
> repositories yet, dunno about RPM-based distros. Hope that helps.

Axel's lirc rpms do support these.

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