<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</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 Tuesday 27 March 2007 00:07, Angus wrote:<br>>> I've been trying to understand what array of remote options there are<br>>> out there for MythTV, but I haven't been able to piece together the<br>
>> information I need. I've been reading about remotes that can be gotten<br>>> on the cheap, but the documentation seems to be completely unaware that<br>>> they all need an IR receiver. My tv card has a remote, with an IR
<br>>> receiver, but it seems to be a waste of space, since I haven't been able<br>>> to get it to do anything but get irrecord to fail. Speaking of which,<br>>> I'd like a low-grief solution, meaning something highly compatible with
<br>>> MythTV, and simple to configure.<br>>> So can someone recommend a compatible model of remote and IR<br>>> receiver for not too much? I hear that places like Radio Shack and Best<br>>> Buy probably have the material I'm looking for, or in this country: The
<br>>> Source and Future Shop.<br>><br>> Others have posted some good comments, but I'd like to clarify some<br>> important<br>> facts and distinctions:<br>><br>> 1) MythTV is a keyboard-controlled application. MythTV itself has, AFAIK,
<br>> no awareness of remote controls. To use a remote with MythTV, you<br>> must have a way to make the remote "look" like a keyboard to MythTV.<br>> Typically, this is the job of LIRC, but there are other options.
<br><br>MythTV is very much a remote control aware application.<br><br>It accepts messages passed from lirc just fine. No shenanigans like<br>converting button events to keyboard events is required.</blockquote><div><br>You made two conflicting statements there. MythTV is NOT remote aware. MythTV is LIRC aware. The two are very different. Unfortunately LIRC is a horrible hodgepodge of a program. Getting LIRC working correctly certainly counts as "shenanigans" in my book.
<br><br>What is really needed is a USB ir receiver that works as a HID device (USB standard for Human Interface Devices). That would alleviate the LIRC hassle.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson