[mythtv-users] Apple Bluetooth Remote Instead? Was: Microsoft Remote Keyboard

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:35:59 -0600, Mark Paulus wrote:

>What about a bluetooth enabled PDA, such as one of the higher end
>Sony Clies?  There's some kind of pretty nifty remote program
>available for PalmOS.  Maybe the writers could be convinced to look
>into using bluetooth to send out their signals.
>
>>> Yesterday I was browsing at a computer shop and noticed that Apple sells
>>> wireless remote keyboards as well as their usual USB connected keyboards. 
>>> The wireless remote keyboards use BLUETOOTH to talk to the computer.
>>> So a USB Bluetooth adapter to give bluetooth capability to your box, plus
>>> this keyboard might do the trick.
>>> Supposedly there is a Linux driver.
>>> The keyboards are quite small and slick.
>>> 
>>> AND there is a bluetooth wireless mouse....Together the price was about
>>> $100 Canadian...
>
>>I use a microsoft bluetooth kb and mouse and it works pretty well (my myth box is in the basement). But I keep waiting for a bluetooth remote, or something like that to come 
>out. Has anyone seen anything like this? THe only thing I've seen are people using their bluetooth phones for a remote - yuck.

Well if bluetooth already works for this there is no reason that a Palm or
a good cell-phone could not be turned into a good remote.

Both Palm and better cell-phones have a Java JVM embedded in them, so
writing a remote program should be possible.

As for me, I know no java *but I know the java I like to drink in the
morning!*
Geoff




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