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

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:45:18 am Eric Sharkey wrote:
> 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_Forwar
> ding
> 

Thanks, I should have thought of that, I have an HDHR but I don't use 
any of its IR features, but it looks like I already own the required 
hardware.

That should get me started in the right direction.

beww


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