[mythtv] Remote Controls

[Colin Panisset]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:51, Joseph Stump spake thus:
> I've been looking over the list, docs, etc. and doing the necessary
> research to get one of these amazing boxes up and running. Here is what
> I've spec'd thus far ...
>
> - The same black noise deadening box the author has
> - Matrox G400-TV (i've seen good posts on the lists about these things)
> - Athlon 2100'ish (is this enough to encode 2 streams while watching
> one?)
> - Undecided on mobo
> - PCI wireless card of some sorts
> - Plenty of HDD (80gb+)
> - 512mb of memory
>
> Here are some questions I have though.
>
> 1.) What are people using for remotes? I'm hoping like hell people can
> point me to a generic TV remote of some sort with IR port that works
> under Linux.

An 8-in-1 generic remote from Radio Shack. Took a bit of tweaking to find 
modes that'd work for all features and all buttons, but it works fine with 
a homebuilt receiver from the LIRC project.

>
> 2.) Does anyone out there have a DVD player plugged into one of these
> to watch DVD's as well? I'd like to be able to watch DVD's and, if I
> bought a combo drive, burn VCD's of my recorded shows.

Nope.

>
> 3.) The MAME module is pretty much what sold me on this project, but
> I'm wondering if anyone up there has plugged in a few game controllers
> to this of some sort. I have dreams of duelling it out with my gf in
> tetris and dr. mario :)

I'm using a Saitek P880 USB dual controller. Works perfectly! You could 
easily just plug in 2.

>
> I think this is a great looking project. The server-client setup in 0.8
> sounds interesting as well.
>
> Any other pointers?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Joe