[mythtv-users] remote vs wireless keyboard vs mythdroid vs mythmote please share your experience

[Rob Verduijn]

Hello everyone,

I've been tweaking around with mythtv for sometime now and I've always
been happy to control it with just my remote.
But nowadays I added netvision and start to get annoyed with typing
with a remote on the on screen keyboard when looking for media with
the search.
I know there are plenty of remotes that have a keyboard for easy
access, but my experience with mythtv is that configuring a new remote
is not something I look forward too.

Thus I want to explore some alternatives.

I considered a wireless keyboard like this one:
  http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/3848
  It's just an example I'm open for other suggestions.
  Did anybody get one that could be configured to wake up the frontend ?
  That is the only thing that I can imagine as a con for this solution.
Right now the wireless keyboard is the most viable option to me, cause
I know a keyboard deals with the current problems
 and as far as I can think the only drawback is that I have to flip
the power switch on my frontend to get it started.

Furthermore I found these 2 options:
mythmote
http://code.google.com/p/mythmote/
mythdroid
http://code.google.com/p/mythdroid/

Biggest drawback of these is that I invest in an android device which
come at a slightly higher price than the remote keyboard.
I'm not talking about the transformer prime (even though I've been
drooling about that one), but a more lo-end device like the ones
produced by yarvik or whatever cheap lo-end brand you can come up
with.

Does anybody have experience with any of the above and would you care
to share it

Cheers
Rob