[mythtv-users] What IR receiver do you use?
Carl Reynolds
mythtv-users at hyperbole-software.com
Wed Jun 18 14:46:03 UTC 2008
Thanks for all your responses. This gives me somewhere to start.
I'm not familiar with MCE. From some of the preceding discussion and my
searches on the Internet, I gather it's a remote. Does it also come with
a target? I get the impression that there are several kinds of remotes
that are called MCE remotes, but, I don't know what distinguishes an MCE
from another kind of remote.
Kevin, Your description of using a JP1 keyboard, not using lirc because
you're programming the JP1,of the keyboard, sounds interesting. I have
a couple of Universal Electronics remotes (http://www.ueic.com/) lying
around here so, I'll have to keep that in mind to look into later when I
want a project to entertain me on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
Marc, Your description of using the StreamZap sounds promising. I'll
have to look into that some more.
Ceri, The link to your blog is really useful. I'm not planning to use
that approach, but, your description of the process you went through to
get your target working has some useful trouble shooting techniques in it.
I don't think I'm quite ready to build my own target. I've looked at a
couple of circuit diagrams and they seem simple enough, but, I tend to
fry components when some puts a soldering iron in my hands.
I've heard about a target called *USB-UIRT (http://www.usbuirt.com/).
**The home page for it says that it's designed for Windows. **However,
I've read some comments that it seems to work well as a receiver for
Linux, but people can't get the transmit function to work. Also the page
says they have a 'no-return' policy, so before I put down $58.00 for one
I want to ask if anyone had any information on them and if you've had
any problems setting one up for MythTV. I've read more about this target
more than any other, so it looks rather attractive to me right now. I'll
have to spend some more time trying to find out about StreamZap so I can
compare them.
By the way, I'm running on Fedora Core and I would like to try to use
one of the UE *(http://www.ueic.com/) *universal remotes. From what I
can tell, the suggested targets that work with ubuntu, and Knoppix
should probably work on Fedora. If I find out any more I'll let you know.
Does anyone know if Universal Electronics makes a target? They seem to
make a lot of remotes, but I wonder if I've missed where they are
selling targets.
Thanks again for all your responses. Very useful stuff,
Carl.
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