[mythtv-users] UDP Driver for LIRC???

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Please pardon my ignorance, I'm not very well informed on LIRC, once I
> got it working to suit me I pretty much ignored it, and my MyBlaster
> does not need it.
>
> But, on another list I follow there was a mention of a "UDP driver" for
> LIRC. The posting implied there is some way for machines to receive IR
> commands via ethernet.
>
> Is this so?

Yes. For example, that's how the HDHomeRun IR receiver works.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust_HDHomeRun#Setting_up_IR_Forwarding

Eric