[mythtv-users] Need a New Remote

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Thu Oct 1 18:13:21 UTC 2015



On 10/1/2015 9:31 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> 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.
>

Well it generates the codes recognized by LIRC and the mceusb 
configuration provided by the distribution. It works for me.



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