[mythtv-users] Pausing, taking a deep breathe... help with remote please...

[Andrew Davis]

Trey Thompson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
>> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Davis
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:50 AM
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Pausing,taking a deep breathe... help with
>>     
> remote
>   
>> please...
>>
>> Okay, I've decided to take a deep breathe, stop and perhaps start over
>> with this issue... and try not to assume I know what I'm doing along
>>     
> the
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>> way. :)
>>
>> That said, I have a Hauppauge PVR500 MCE bundle that includes a
>> remote/receiver. I read on a thread somewhere that its an IR Blaster
>>     
> and
>   
>> called a "bean bag" and in all honesty, I don't know what either of
>> these phrases mean. So, in order to back up and start from the
>> beginning, I'd like to make sure I'm using this correctly. Obviously
>> there's a remote. A remote is a remote, in a general sense. There's
>>     
> also
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>> a greyish, squarish box that looks like an IR receiver (the front has
>> the clearish, red cover). The back of it has three ports... the one in
>> the middle is a USB type A port and it includes a USB type A to type B
>> cable. Presumably, I plug this into an available USB port on my system
>> (port speed shouldn't matter since IR is slower than even USB 1.1,
>> correct)? Also on the back of the grey unit I'm calling an IR receiver
>> are two headphone style, female ports labeled "1" and "2". Lastly,
>> there's a really long cable with what looks like a 1/8'' mono
>>     
> headphone
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>> connector on one end and something that looks like a black vitamin E
>> capsule on the other end. What is this for? What's it called? Do I
>>     
> need
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>> it? (In light of the last question, please consider that I have a very
>> simple setup... I split my cable connection so its still running to my
>> Cox cable box. I now have a line off the splitter running to my Myth
>>     
> box
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>> and am getting channels 0-99 which I'm quite content with for now.
>>     
> Thus,
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>> while I understand I may need to learn more about IR Blasters and
>>     
> such,
>   
>> when answering if I need this longer cable thingy, please consider my
>> *current* setup).
>>
>> Thanks much for any help you can provide. My Myth box is working quite
>> well except for the remote. After many hours of googling, trying this
>> and that, and other frustrations, I figured it was best to step back
>>     
> and
>   
>> take it a step at a time. Hence, I'm first trying to make sure I have
>> the h/w wired up right. For those that care, my issue is that the
>>     
> remote
>   
>> doesn't seem to be communicating with the Myth box, nor with "irw".
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> That's the OEM bundle.  Includes a Microsoft MCE remote, receiver and
> blaster.  The "box" is the IR receiver, and the 1/8" cable is the
> "blaster" cable to control things like cable boxes, satellite boxes,
> etc...
>
> I have mine (receiver) working fine, let me know if you need any config
> files.
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So right now I've just split my cable feed and am running one leg to my 
Cox tuner and the other to my MythBox. I noticed the back of my Cox 
tuner has a port for an IR Blaster, so presumably, as I get a more 
complicated solution, I could run my cable feed into my Cox tuner, then 
run that out to my Myth box (allowing me to get more than channels 0-99) 
and plug the IR Blaster into the Cox box so the Myth box could change 
channels???

The only config file help I could use right now are mplayer mappings for 
lircrc. My file has them for xine, but as I understand things, .20 adds 
its own DVD/movie player which is really mplayer on the backend? I have 
keys for volume and fast forward, but not for stop, pause, chapter skip 
(presumably usable since it has menu support).