<div dir="ltr">I did a clean install of Ubuntu and MythTV last weekend. Wow, things have come a long way since I first started. I had everything I needed out of the box! Great work.<br><br>Anyway, everything is working great (generally better than before) except that for some reason my PVR-150 IR receiver isn't working. I've run all the diagnostics I can all the way down to running "mode2" and I don't get anything. Lirc is running and it sees my Hauppauge IR receiver just fine. Anyway, that isn't the point of the email...just some background to explain my motivation.<br>
<br>Frankly, this remote thing has been a thorn in my side for a long time so I'd like to "revisit" this. I was using the PVR-150 but LIRC is a bit of a hassle and the RC-5 only limitation of the PVR-150 is a really annoying aspect as well. So, I'm wondering what my options are here. I don't want to spend much money, but I'm just wondering what other people use.<br>
<br>I have an HDHomerun and my fallback would be to move that into the living room and use the IR pickup on that. It seems quite solid and it doesn't seem to have the RC-5 limitation either. For various "connectivity" reasons, moving the HDHomerun may be impractical so I'm keeping that my fallback.<br>
<br>One thing I noticed in playing with HDHomerun (what a cool piece of hardware that is!) was the "UDP" aspect of LIRC. That is pretty neat. What other devices use UDP? I assume the UDP data that is being sent is fairly low level IR information so I would think that talking with LIRC that way would be pretty hard unless you were feeding it data directly from an IP pickup.<br>
<br>I don't want to build my own IR receiver (I want to go in completely the opposite direction...I don't have that kind of time). An ideal solution would be a simple, cheap USB based device but when I've looked at those in the past it always seemed like there was some issue with LIRC and some USB devices (IrDa?).<br>
<br>I saw <a href="http://iguanaworks.net/product1.psp">this thing</a> from IguanaWorks. Anybody have any experience with this?<br><br>Another thing I considered were "high-end" mice or mini-keyboards using RF. For example, at work we have a little USB device for operating PowerPoint remotely. I wonder how effective this would be for MythTV? Another thing I've considered is "gyroscopic" mice. Anybody used those with MythTV?<br>
<br>Basically, I'm interested in finding out all the options. Surely there are some very nice non-PVR-150 solutions out there so I'd like to hear what they are.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>--<br>Mike<br><br></div>