[mythtv-users] Using non xbox remotes with the official xbox remote usb receiver

Joe Votour joevph at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 28 00:41:27 UTC 2006



--- "kanetse at gmail.com" <kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/27/06, Alexander Fisher <alex at alexfisher.me.uk>
> wrote:
> > The MS Xbox remote is a bit short on buttons and
> I've got 3 hauppauge
> > PVR remotes which came with my Nova-T's not being
> used.
> > According to this post ...
> >
>
http://pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs-old/viewtopic.php?t=35957
> > I should be able to use alternative remotes with
> my Xbox.  Does anybody
> > here know how to do this?  Could you post your
> lirc config files?
> > I'm a lirc newbie and so far haven't even got
> irrecord to work :(
> >
> 
> I believe that the IR receiver on the XBox only
> accepts a limited
> number of codes, mostly those produced by the XBox
> DVD Remote itself. 
> This is probably true for most remote/IR receiver
> pairings.  If your
> Hauppauge PVR happens to send the same codes as the
> XBox DVD Remote,
> then you could try it out.
> 
> I ran an experiment where I ran irrecord, pointed my
> XBox360 remote at
> it and pressed a few buttons... irrecord didn't see
> anything.
> 
> However, I know that the IR receiver for the basic
> XBox DVD remote
> will accept codes from the XBox Media Center
> Extender remote.  I own a
> Logitech Harmony 880 remote, so I downloaded MCE
> remote the codes onto
> Harmony 880 and now have mapped many of the MCE
> remote buttons onto my
> Harmony; without ever actually having bought an XBox
> MCE remote.
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I'm not sure what the XBox360 remote protocol is, but
it has been reported that it will not work with the
original XBox.

I use a universal remote control with my XBox (using
the Microsoft dongle), and it works well - use one of
the RCA remote codes (I don't remember which one, and
I don't have the remote with me, so I couldn't tell
you for sure).  (In case you're wondering, the
Hauppauge remotes for the PVR-250 and 350 use RC-5 VCR
codes - I don't know about the Nova ones, but I would
assume they are similar.)

As for writing an lircd.conf, I would find one of the
pre-filled RCA ones (surely one must exist somewhere),
and use irw to determine which buttons work.  Rename
them, and presto, instant lirc.

-- Joe

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