<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 13, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Carl Fongheiser wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 12/13/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">Tony McDowell</B> <<A href="mailto:svet-am@cableone.net">svet-am@cableone.net</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Well, I've just about got my Myth box up and running. I'm going for a<BR>"little bit" of overkill since this box will be a media *server* as well<BR>as the Myth controller. It's running on a Tyan Thunder S2567 with dual <BR>1.0GHz Tualatins. My TV receiver is the Hauppauge PVR-350. So far,<BR>it's all running satisfactorily. However, as I bought the PVR-350 on<BR>eBay, the seller neglected to include the remote or the IR receiver.<BR> <BR>So, I'm in the market for one. This box is a christmas gift for my wife<BR>(her request since she'd heard so much about MythTV), so I need the IR<BR>and remote to be (a) easy to set up for me and (b) easy to use for her. <BR><BR>I'm open to just about anything since it's for the Mrs.<BR><BR>thanks all!</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR><BR>If you can't get the original remote & receiver, I'd recommend you go for a Windows MCE remote. They're well supported in lirc, and are very easy to set up. <BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I bought an MCE remote off of newegg and really like it, but it does not have programmable volume buttons. So I grabbed a Harmony remote off of ebay (best place for them) and it works really, really well (through the MCE USB dongle).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Keith</DIV></BODY></HTML>