[mythtv-users] resolving remote conflicts: what are the options?

[James Miller]

I was presented recently with what was to me--though surely not for 
others--a novel situation: a remote conflict. Since I couldn't get my 
monitor--one that's been for some time happily displaying content from my 
MythTV box--working with an Android STB/MSB (media streaming box) I 
recently acquired, I ended up buying a used LCD TV ($50, since the sound 
was not working) to use with my MythTV and STB/MSB systems.

I'd had no remote conflicts previously because I'd been interfacing with 
MythTV, during all the years I've been using it, via a keyboard of one 
sort or another. Now, however, I discovered that the TV and STB/MSB 
remotes were interfering with each other. I gathered from a bit of 
research that this was not an easily resolvable situation, so I began 
considering what sorts of alternatives I'd have.

What I resolved on doing was running everything through the Kodi installed 
on the STB/MSB, interfacing with it via a Kodi phone/tablet app (in 
conjunction, of course, with the appropriate Kodi PVR add-on). I just set 
that up today and need to do further testing, but it looks like this 
solution should work well for me.

Still, I've been wondering: are there other alternatives? It seemed like 
this would be a good place to ask that sort of question.