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

[Greg Mitchell]

Kichigai Mentat wrote:
>>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.
> 
> This is interesting, because when I asked about this in a separate  
> thread, and someone said that the XBox IR receiver was just a USB IR  
> dongle with very little that was special about it, and should be able  
> to receive other signals, if LIRC is reconfigured.
> 
> Anyone out there that's actually done this? Or experimented with it?

I haven't done much, but I do know that it accepts RCA DVD remote codes. 
  I currently use a cheap RCA universal remote, and had only to define a 
few extra buttons in the lircd.conf and .lircrc files.

The standard XBox remote sends RCA DVD codes, it just doesn't have 
enough buttons - if you have a universal remote that you like, chances 
are good that you can set it up as an RCA DVD player, and just do 
standard lirc stuff to find out what the other buttons get received as 
(if they get picked up at all)

I'll admit that I don't know much about it, because I just grabbed a 
lircd.conf file for a similar remote to the one I have and grabbed codes 
from there.

Greg