[mythtv-users] recent information for programming harmony remotes?

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Hi Brian,

We have been using harmony remotes for years with MythTV.  If you are
interested we use the XBox remote and the harmony 1100. What you need to do
is start with a remote that is not the harmony remote and get that working
first.  Then, as painful as this can be, point the working remote at the
harmony remote and teach the harmony remote each IR command.  Its really
not as horrible as it seems, after about 20 minutes you'll have a
functional remote that works with your other stuff too (aka your tv,
amplifier, cable box, etc).

Using a harmony cuts wwaayy back on the in house MythTV adoption factor -
everyone knows how to use a remote.  If I was using just a standard
pc keyboard with mythtv everyone would (still) fumble around looking for a
remote.

One thought is that on one of my MythTV boxes I use a StreamZap remote and
IR receiver.  I configured the StreamZap remote using a standard mythbuntu
LIRC configuration.  You could then configure the harmony remote from the
StreamZap remote using the method I describe above.

Hope that helps.

On Sunday, August 25, 2013, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:

> I set my Harmony remote to emulate a MCE remote and used the MCE profile
> in Myth. Works well for me.
>
>
> On 26 August 2013 10:25, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'brian at interlinx.bc.ca');>
> > wrote:
>
>> On 13-08-25 01:49 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The Harmony profile is just a list of IR codes that the remote knows
>>> your receiver can understand. That part of things is no different than
>>> what any cheapo All-for-One remote can do.
>>>
>>
>> Of course.  I do know all of this IR stuff you know.  I am sure with a
>> little time and effort I could also figure out how to re-blaze the trail of
>> how to customize profiles for a Harmony remote, but you see, I am trying to
>> not waste time re-inventing wheels that have already been invented.
>>
>>
>>  The value of a Harmony remote
>>> is in the activities, IR macros, and management of power and input
>>> states of multiple devices, and that configuration is independent of
>>> anything that has to happen on the PC side of things.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, again, I do know all of this.  I have one of these remotes already.
>>  It's the details of making these macros and programming the soft keys,
>> etc. that I don't want to waste time figuring out how to do if somebody has
>> already done all of that.
>>
>> Do you have any *specific* information about how that is done for Harmony
>> remotes as it is *that* that is the crux of what I am asking about here.
>>
>>
>> b.
>>
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