the sky Navigator control available in the UK is a remote control with a qwerty keyboard inside<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rod Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@rodsbooks.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mythtv@rodsbooks.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Saturday 03 February 2007 23:00, Robin Smith wrote:
<br>> I am wondering if there is a remote available that works by simply<br>> emulating keyboard commands. While I think this would be good for<br>> MythTV, I am looking for it for another application (in Window$) where
<br>> I want o be able to program any key on the remote to emulate a<br>> keyboard key.<br>><br>> In other words, a keyboard in the form factor of a TV-style remote control.<br>><br>> Given that there's many folks here with a variety of hardware
<br>> experience, I thought it would be a good place to ask...<br><br>There are infrared wireless keyboards available. You could get one of those<br>(for the IR receiver) and then program a sufficiently advanced universal
<br>remote to emulate the keyboard. Of course, most universal remotes aren't<br>marked with the sorts of alphanumeric keys you find on computer keyboards, so<br>the mapping will be awkward at best. Some very advanced universal remotes
<br>have LCDs that you can program, though; presumably you could program them<br>with computer keyboard symbols, although I've not looked into this.<br><br>--<br>Rod Smith<br><a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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