[mythtv-users] Advice on using an RF remote?

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 21:59:07 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a couple of Zotac IONITX based frontends that I would like to
> power-down (suspend) when not in use.  I don't really want to use
> wake-on-USB with the IR receiver because of the known issues with the
> early IONITX boards, and also because I often see the IR receiver
> picking up stray signals which would presumably wake up the frontend.
>
> I'm thinking of setting up a universal IR/RF remote to control things.
>  The IR part is needed for controlling the TV.  The RF part would
> involve an RF receiver on the always-on master backend, which would be
> able to remotely suspend the frontends, resume them with wake-on-LAN,
> and use NetworkControls to send keypresses to mythfrontend.
>
> Has anyone done something like this?  Any gotchas?  Any
> recommendations for RF receiver hardware that works with LIRC?

Thanks everyone for the advice.  In the end, I decided not to pursue
this because it appears that it would take at least 2 years of reduced
frontend power consumption to make up for the cost of the new remote
control hardware, plus there are sure to be WAF issues.

Jim


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