[mythtv-users] IR reccommendations

[Patrick Reynolds]

> So, now that the whole box is working so very nicely, I'm ready to stick
> a remote on there.  Does anyone have any reccommendations for
> particularly painless IR receivers?  I have a digital cable box, so I'm
> pretty sure I'll need a transmitter too.

Lirc-serial is pretty cool if you have a serial port available.  Build your
own from parts, or you may be able to buy a premade one:
  http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/?partType=section&partName=introduction
The parts are about $10 online or $20 at Radio Shack.  A homebrew receiver
is nice because it works with (almost) any remote control.

You'll definitely want a transmitter so that Myth can change channels on
the cable box to do automatic recording.  Are you doing just live TV right
now?

> behind "live" TV?  Do you have to wait (ffwd) the 20 seconds, or does it
> just skip the rest of the buffer to get to the new channel?

It discards the rest of the buffer and changes immediately (with a ~2
second lag visible).  If you change channels when you're ten minutes
behind live TV, you lose those ten minutes.  Forever.  :)

--Patrick