[mythtv-users] universal remote for pvr-250

Egeekial egeekial at comcast.net
Fri Jun 3 17:54:51 UTC 2005


Hmmm... the 15-2116 in the guide is no longer listed on Radioshack's 
website. Does anyone know if they still have it in stores?

Brad Kerr wrote:

>...and, Jarod has a guide to help you:
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>http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/remotes.php
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>On 6/3/05, Michael Carland <mcarland at bitsgonewild.net> wrote:
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>>On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Ashu Desai wrote:
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>>>Hello all,
>>>I lost my remote control for PVR-250 and was wondering if I can use
>>>either of the following:
>>>
>>>Sony RM-Y168 (my TV remote)
>>>Sony RMT-D128A (my DVD remote)
>>>Sony RM-V8A (universal remote)
>>>JVC LP20303-009
>>>
>>>for my PVR-250 card...
>>>
>>>If so, I would appreciate a step-by-step guidance. I am a Unix rookie
>>>and can't figure out much on my own.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Ash.
>>>      
>>>
>>IIRC the PVR can only detect RC5 remotes. There is a file on the home
>>page of lirc (http://www.lirc.org) remotes.tar.bz2 that has the codes
>>of all the currently known remotes.
>>
>>Unpacking that file and looking in the Sony directory, I do not see any
>>of your Sony remotes, but grepping them for RC5 only returns one match,
>>so I would suspect Sony does not use RC5 protocol.
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>>Grepping in the jvc directory for RC5 returns no matches.
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>>I think Philips came up with RC5, there are many matches for it in the
>>philips directory.
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>>You could get a pretty cheap universal remote from Radio Shack, and
>>program it to imitate a Philips remote, or Hauppauge have a replacement
>>remote on their site for $14.95
>>(http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp#remote).
>>
>>-Michael
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