[mythtv-users] Cheap USB IR receivers on ebay

[Jeremy Jones]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:

> 2012/8/17 Bryan Cromwell <bcromwell.mailinglists at gmail.com>:
> > Has anyone tried some of the cheap ir receivers on ebay such as:
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/271000300944
>
> I haven't tried that one, but I always use the HP-branded ir receivers
> from eBay. They're quite a bit larger, but they are fully LIRC and MCE
> compatible. They use the default mceusb driver in a recent Linux
> kernel (I think it's 2.6.35+), so no additional drivers are needed. In
> Mythbuntu you just plug it in, select the MCE receiver option and
> you're done.
>
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-HP-Wireless-MCE-USB-Infrared-Receiver-VISTA-MCE2005-/350520576726?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item519ca78ad6
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-HP-MCE-KIT-REMOTE-CONTROL-USB-IR-RECEIVER-EMITTER-/270709728089?pt=US_Remote_Controls_Pointers&hash=item3f078ea359
>
> Best regards
> Kenni
>


I've been using this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-DVD-VCD-MCE-Remote-Control-USB-Receiver-/270742743388?pt=US_Remote_Controls_Pointers&hash=item3f0986695c#ht_1319wt_1186

While that is the same remote, it is not who I bought mine from.  I just
did a search and grabbed the first one I found.

Mark Lord, one of the users on this list wrote a replacement driver, and it
works great with all the 'stock' keys in myth.  It does not use LIRC, and
it is extremely easy to setup.  You also have customizations available such
as long key presses, accelerated repeats, etc.

Driver and Mark's description is here:
http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/


Mark:  I noticed that the wiki page for remotes does not list the sapphire
explicitly, but I assume this remote would fall under this category from
the wiki.  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Generic_HID_%22MCE%22_Remotes  Care
to weigh in?

Jeremy
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