<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Carl Reynolds <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@hyperbole-software.com">mythtv-users@hyperbole-software.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Everyone,<br>I have a system I've been running MythTV on for a couple of years. I've<br>been using a keyboard to control the system, but am interested in<br>
hooking up an IR receiver to use a remote.<br><br>I wanted to find out what receivers other people are using that might be<br>a good choice for me.<br><br>I would like to connect the receiver to a USB port on the machine and I<br>
have a Universal Electronics remote I would like to try. I think what I<br>want is a universal receiver, but I'm not sure about that.<br><br>I do know that I would like the receiver to come with at least some<br>documentation as to how to use it and how to set up the remote and/or<br>
the receiver so they will work with each other. I actually have an IR<br>receiver that I got several years ago with no documentation and have<br>recently tried to get it to work, but not been able to get it to receive<br>
a signal from the remote and give it to lirc, so I think documentation<br>with the receiver is probably pretty important.<br><br>I would appreciate any suggestions you might have about the IR receivers<br>you're using and how easy you found them to setup.</blockquote>
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<div>None. I have an IR based keyboard that plugins into the PS2 keyboard and mouse ports on my computer. I have a learning remote (URC-8910 - maybe $30) that I programmed with JP1 to emulate the keyboard IR commands. To Myth, all the remote button presses come in as keyboard commands so I don't have to mess around with LIRC at all. Very easy to set up and is *alot* faster in responding to buttons than LIRC.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>