[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers For LIRC

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/7/2015 11:58 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> I thought I'd start a new thread since our other one got mixed in with 
> some ECS Liva stuff.
>
> I want to know if anyone knows of any currently available USB IR 
> receivers that just work with LIRC and a standard Linux distro. That 
> means on being plugged in they load a kernel driver and create a 
> /dev/lirc interface.
>
> Tom Bongiorno has pointed towards http://flirc.tv/. But that sounds 
> like a keyboard interface and lots of programming and work-arounds and 
> grief.
>
> I was also directed to:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-RC2604315-01BG-Media-Center-Remote-Control-USB-IR-Receiver-OVU710018-01-/251421736049? 
>
>
> (Sorry forgot who) But it turns out that user was using it with Kodi 
> or something similar and not LIRC. I just never got it to work despite 
> patching the mceusb.ko source and lots of work removing the default 
> keyboard interface.
>
> There must be something out there. I took my *ancient* Microsoft 
> branded IR receiver, plugged it into my brand new ECS Liva running 
> Fedora 21 and LIRC 0.9.1a and it *Just Worked*.
>
> There must be something else out there!
>

I posted this to lirc-list too. If I get any answers there I will share 
them.