[mythtv-users] blue tooth / wireless keyborad

Matthew Asplund mattasplund at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 21:39:55 UTC 2007


I have to agree with this.  I am using the gyration keyboard and mouse with
my mythtv box, and it works fantastically.  Well, . . . it works really
well.  I have never made the extra multimedia buttons to work under
KDE/mythtv, but that really isn't that important.

Matt Asplund

On 3/2/07, Robert Anderson <riznob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/2/07, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 02 March 2007 14:24, Brock Palen wrote:
> > > Does anyone use a wireless/bluetooth keyboard with myth?  If so what
> > > do you recommend?  And how simple was it to install.  My system does
> > > not have blue tooth so I will need to add a adaptor and i am running
> > > Fedora core 6. I want to have good control over the system more than
> > > the remote that comes with the PVR-250,  Thankyou in advance.  (i
> > > guess fancy remotes fallinto this question also)
> >
> > I use a wireless keyboard, but it's infrared, not bluetooth. It's a
> > Lite-On
> > SK-7500 that I picked up on eBay a year or two ago. It's got keys
> > similar to
> > most desktop keyboards, but with a layout more like that of a laptop
> > (with
> > some keys doing double duty as the numeric keypad). It's also got an
> > integrated "mouse" (really more like a joystick). It required no special
> > configuration; I just plugged it in and it worked like a normal
> > keyboard.
> > (The mouse looks like a standard PS/2 mouse to X.) I've configured my
> > One For
> > All URC-6131 remote (with JP1 extensions) to emulate the keyboard, so I
> > don't
> > need LIRC at all.
> >
> > For the most part, this works well. The main drawback is that the IR
> > receiver
> > occasionally misses the key-up part of the IR signal from the URC-6131
> > remote, and MythTV responds as if this were many keypresses in quick
> > succession. Perhaps disabling auto-repeat in X would fix this, but I
> > haven't
> > gotten around to trying it. I have yet to see this happen when I'm using
> > the
> > actual keyboard.
> >
> > --
> > Rod Smith
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com
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> >
>
> I used to use the Micro$oft bluetooth desktop keyboard and mouse. It
> worked well, but it was kinda a pain in the ass because the devices would
> fall off the network and need to be added back on pretty regularly. But when
> they were on the network they worked great. I have since switched to using a
> wireless keyboard and mouse from Gyration www.gyration.com. Very happy
> with it.
>
> --
> Rob Anderson
> riznob at gmail.com
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