[mythtv-users] HD-PVR as IR receiver under Mythbuntu, advice needed

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:

> So I've been planning my upgrade to 0.22, along with adding an HD-PVR and replacing my frontend hardware with a Revo. The Revo doesn't have a serial port, so my IR sensor will no longer be usable. However, the HD-PVR has an IR sensor built-in, and from what I can gather, there is support for it in lirc, but this support is kind of an in-progress thing.  I want to use Mythbuntu for my myth system, and upgrade the lirc drivers to handle the HD-PVR sensor.
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> In this message:
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> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2009-September/263197.htmll
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> Jarod talks about ways to upgrade lirc to work with the HD-PVR. However, I think his examples all pertain to Fedora.

No. Everything after option 1 there pertains to Linux, nothing Fedora-specific at all.

For Fedora 12 though, it should all Just Work, right out of the box.

> Does anyone have advice on what route to take to get this working under Mythbuntu?  I have some, but not a lot (and not in several years), of experience with kernel rebuilding, if that ends up being necessary.

Its not. See option 3 in the url you referenced. (but I'd use the latest git head, rather than the version referenced there).

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Jarod Wilson
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