[mythtv-users] USB IR receiver of choice

Rick ve1gn at nb.sympatico.ca
Fri Jan 6 15:57:37 UTC 2006


Mike wrote:
> Apparently I'm the rear end of a donkey. I had a family member order two 
> serial IR receivers from irblaster.info for his new Myth boxes, but 
> neither of the computers have serial ports. (Go figure, it isn't 1992 
> anymore.)  I'd rather not throw more PCI cards in these boxes just to 
> support yesteryear's technology, so are there any users out there that 
> have recommendations for USB IR receivers that are easy to implement 
> with lirc and myth?

I use this USB to Serial Adapter with  MyBlaster and it works without 
problems. www.mytvstore.com/product_id_011.html

It shows up as dev/ttyUSB0

Rick


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