<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Kevin Kuphal <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Kuphal <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> <snip/><br>>> ><br>>> > None. I have an IR based keyboard that plugins into the PS2 keyboard<br>
>> > and<br>>> > mouse ports on my computer. I have a learning remote (URC-8910 - maybe<br>>> > $30)<br>>> > that I programmed with JP1 to emulate the keyboard IR commands. To<br>>> > Myth,<br>
>> > all the remote button presses come in as keyboard commands so I don't<br>>> > have<br>>> > to mess around with LIRC at all. Very easy to set up and is *alot*<br>>> > faster<br>
>> > in responding to buttons than LIRC.<br>>><br>>> i use the IR receiver that came with the PVR-250 and the included<br>>> remote. love the remote ;)<br>>><br>>> Kevin, what keyboard do you use? i like the idea of not having to use<br>
>> LIRC :)<br>><br>><br>> When I bought it, it was this model:<br>> <a href="http://www.cwol.com/keyboards/sk7551.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cwol.com/keyboards/sk7551.htm</a><br>> which looks like you can still get it from here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.pctekonline.com/skcomwirkeyw.html" target="_blank">http://www.pctekonline.com/skcomwirkeyw.html</a><br>><br>> The details on the process are here with links to the cables, etc:<br>> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Programming_Remotes_as_Keyboards" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Programming_Remotes_as_Keyboards</a><br>
<br></div></div>very cool. looks like there are a couple models out there all in the<br>$20 - $30 (US) range. i wonder if the USB models would work without<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">having to use LIRC..?</div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Anything that would works as a keyboard to Linux would work fine. That's really the key of it all. Once you're sending keystrokes to Linux, LIRC is completely out of the loop. I like that particular keyboard also because the joystick is easy to use when I need to pull out the keyboard and use a mouse plus it has the multimedia keys which I was able to also map to buttons so either on the remote or keyboard if I hit "Power", the frontend recycles by running script.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>