[mythtv-users] alternate remotes other than MCE?

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> At my parents house there are two MythTV frontends that are close
> enough where I'd like to have two separate set of remote codes so they
> don't interfere with each other (they have an open floor plan). Does
> anyone know of a decent USB remote that uses codes that are alternate
> to the standard MCE codes that we could use?

I don't have an answer to your specific situation, but maybe something
you can get to work easily.

I use the universal remote that came with my Onkyo home theater
system. I'm basically using the standard Onkyo DVD codes. Once I
figured out LiRC it was pretty easy. I recorded every single button
that worked in DVD mode on the remote (which includes a nifty joystick
for up/down/left/right) and then assigned them appropriately in Myth.

I'm using a standard serial IR receiver and it works surprisingly well.

Richard