On 6/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hamish Moffatt</b> <<a href="mailto:hamish@cloud.net.au">hamish@cloud.net.au</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;">
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:08:28PM -0400, Rich West wrote:<br>> Hamish Moffatt wrote:<br>> > I'm using a TiVO remote with a homebrew serial IR receiver currently.<br>> > However I just bought a new frontend which does not have a legacy serial
<br>> > port, so I need USB.<br>> ><br>> > Are there any USB receivers that work with a TiVO remote?<br>><br>> Just buy a USB->Serial adapter and use what you already have.<br><br>You can't use those with a homebrew serial IR receiver. The driver
<br>contains its own driver for the UART, which won't work with the USB.<br><br>The homebrew IR works by counting the time between pulses in the<br>software driver. USB doesn't work like that.<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>He is correct. Just get the StreamZap USB IR receiver. I have exactly that setup: non-legacy Dell, StreamZap, and Tivo S2 remote.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Mark L. Chang