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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:46 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">Thanks for all your responses. This gives me somewhere to start.<br><br>I'm not familiar with MCE. From some of the preceding discussion and my<br>
searches on the Internet, I gather it's a remote. Does it also come with<br>a target? I get the impression that there are several kinds of remotes<br>that are called MCE remotes, but, I don't know what distinguishes an MCE<br>
from another kind of remote.<br><br>Kevin, Your description of using a JP1 keyboard, not using lirc because<br>you're programming the JP1,of the keyboard, sounds interesting. I have<br>a couple of Universal Electronics remotes (<a href="http://www.ueic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ueic.com/</a>) lying<br>
around here so, I'll have to keep that in mind to look into later when I<br>want a project to entertain me on a rainy Saturday afternoon.<br><br>Marc, Your description of using the StreamZap sounds promising. I'll<br>
have to look into that some more.<br><br>Ceri, The link to your blog is really useful. I'm not planning to use<br>that approach, but, your description of the process you went through to<br>get your target working has some useful trouble shooting techniques in it.<br>
<br>I don't think I'm quite ready to build my own target. I've looked at a<br>couple of circuit diagrams and they seem simple enough, but, I tend to<br>fry components when some puts a soldering iron in my hands.<br>
<br>I've heard about a target called *USB-UIRT (<a href="http://www.usbuirt.com/" target="_blank">http://www.usbuirt.com/</a>).<br>**The home page for it says that it's designed for Windows. **However,<br>I've read some comments that it seems to work well as a receiver for<br>
Linux, but people can't get the transmit function to work. Also the page<br>says they have a 'no-return' policy, so before I put down $58.00 for one<br>I want to ask if anyone had any information on them and if you've had<br>
any problems setting one up for MythTV. I've read more about this target<br>more than any other, so it looks rather attractive to me right now. I'll<br>have to spend some more time trying to find out about StreamZap so I can<br>
compare them.<br><br>By the way, I'm running on Fedora Core and I would like to try to use<br>one of the UE *(<a href="http://www.ueic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ueic.com/</a>) *universal remotes. From what I<br>
can tell, the suggested targets that work with ubuntu, and Knoppix<br>should probably work on Fedora. If I find out any more I'll let you know.<br><br>Does anyone know if Universal Electronics makes a target? They seem to<br>
make a lot of remotes, but I wonder if I've missed where they are<br>selling targets.<br><br><br><br><br>Thanks again for all your responses. Very useful stuff,<br>
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<div>The MCE remote comes with a receiver (USB).</div>
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<div>here's the info on it:</div>
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<div><a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote">http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote</a></div>
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<div>it should do just about everything you need, and google thinks you can get it for about $24.</div>
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