[mythtv-users] Need a New Remote

[Mike Perkins]

On 01/10/15 15:08, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
> I have used the RCA RCRP05BR for many years with many different USB IR receivers:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/RCA-RCRP05BR-Device-Replacement-Universal/dp/B0028IKXLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1443708285&sr=1-1&keywords=rca+rcrp05br
>
> It does support programming as an MCE remote. I have two at each of my two front
> end locations and another six sitting in the garage for replacements.
>
The problem there is that the phrase "MCE Remote" actually means very little at all, as my own 
investigations have discovered.

Alleged "MCE" remotes and receivers can send and receive almost any kind of IR code and there is 
almost no commonality amongst them.

If you don't believe me, look at the translation tables in /lib/udev/rc_keymaps[1] for tables with 
"mce" in their names. The LIRC tables have yet more variations...

[1] in debian distros, yours may be somewhere different.

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Mike Perkins