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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rod Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@rodsbooks.com">mythtv@rodsbooks.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Friday 02 March 2007 14:24, Brock Palen wrote:<br>> Does anyone use a wireless/bluetooth keyboard with myth? If so what
<br>> do you recommend? And how simple was it to install. My system does<br>> not have blue tooth so I will need to add a adaptor and i am running<br>> Fedora core 6. I want to have good control over the system more than
<br>> the remote that comes with the PVR-250, Thankyou in advance. (i<br>> guess fancy remotes fallinto this question also)<br><br>I use a wireless keyboard, but it's infrared, not bluetooth. It's a Lite-On
<br>SK-7500 that I picked up on eBay a year or two ago. It's got keys similar to<br>most desktop keyboards, but with a layout more like that of a laptop (with<br>some keys doing double duty as the numeric keypad). It's also got an
<br>integrated "mouse" (really more like a joystick). It required no special<br>configuration; I just plugged it in and it worked like a normal keyboard.<br>(The mouse looks like a standard PS/2 mouse to X.) I've configured my One For
<br>All URC-6131 remote (with JP1 extensions) to emulate the keyboard, so I don't<br>need LIRC at all.<br><br>For the most part, this works well. The main drawback is that the IR receiver<br>occasionally misses the key-up part of the IR signal from the URC-6131
<br>remote, and MythTV responds as if this were many keypresses in quick<br>succession. Perhaps disabling auto-repeat in X would fix this, but I haven't<br>gotten around to trying it. I have yet to see this happen when I'm using the
<br>actual keyboard.<br><br>--<br>Rod Smith<br><a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com">http://www.rodsbooks.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I used to use the Micro$oft bluetooth desktop keyboard and mouse. It worked well, but it was kinda a pain in the ass because the devices would fall off the network and need to be added back on pretty regularly. But when they were on the network they worked great. I have since switched to using a wireless keyboard and mouse from Gyration
<a href="http://www.gyration.com">www.gyration.com</a>. Very happy with it.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rob Anderson<br><a href="mailto:riznob@gmail.com">riznob@gmail.com</a>