[mythtv-users] mythtv with logitech harmony 555 & NOVA TD-500

[Andre Newman]

On 15 Mar 2010, at 22:06, Gavin Whitehead wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I'm going round in circles here.  I have MythTV 0.22 on Xubuntu 9.10.  I have a Hauppauge WinTV NOVA TD-500 installed and LIRC installed and configured to use the Hauppauge remote.  It all works and was remarkably easy to configure.
> I have recently bought a Logitech Harmony 555 and I want to get this to drive MythTV.  The 555 works fine with my TV and old VCR/DVD player; but I can't get it configured with LIRC so I can't get it to drive MythTV.  I've gone through the steps in these two links:
> 
>   http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Logitech_Harmony_Generic_Setup
>   http://www.beulbek.nl/2008/12/18/controlling-my-ubuntu-based-mediacenter-with-a-logitech-harmony-555/
> 
> but to no avail.  Can anyone help me here?  Has anyone got the Harmony 555 working with a NOVA TD-500 (or for that matter with a NOVA-HD-S2 - which is also installed on my HTPC)?

I never got anywhere with those howto's either!

I've got a Harmony one working with a HVR-4000 but the IR seems to be the same on the HD-S2, Nova S+ & Nova T 500 that I have so I'd expect there a good chance the TD-500 is the same too.
Once I'd got it working with the Hauppauge remote I added this remote to the harmony and all worked fine, in the Harmony software select Media Centre PC / Hauppauge /hvr-4000 works fine, you have to manually map the keys in the Activity as it comes up completely unmapped by default!? 

I'm sure others may have had success but I couldn't get anything to work until I grabbed the hauppage remote and used that as a starting point.

I believe it's the same configuration software for all the different harmony models.

Andre