[mythtv-users] IR reccommendations

[mythgnomer at rowelab.com]

Hrmm.. Digital cable.. Wouldn't happen to be the motorola DCT2000, would it?
If so, you _may_ be able to change the channel via a serial cable.
Otherwise, you'd need to build / buy a tranceiver or a receiver and
transmitter.. I'd suggest this one, but it's expensive..
http://www.irtrans.de/english/index.htm (it's a bit overkill, too.)

If you want to buy a receiver, the irman is the most sensitive device I've
used. I've also built the transmitter described here
http://www.unusedino.de/lirc/improved_transmitter.html and it works well if
you can put it in front of the cable box.

Problem with doing a receiver and a transmitter separately is getting two
that can share the same serial port, or running two copies of lirc with
hardware on two different ports.. Both a bit of a headache as far as I can
tell.

I ended up not needing to do both, since my backend was too underpowered to
also be a frontend.

http://www.rowerules.com/mythtv

-Scott Rowe

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Campbell Vertesi
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:57 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] IR reccommendations

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.


Also, how does that work with Myth's Tivo features?  Right now I've been
using my cable remote to change channels, so there is a 3 second (or so)
delay between hitting the channel button and having the change register on
Myth's TV interface.  I'm sure this is because of myth's buffering.
but what about when the remote is actually going through myth?  What happens
when you press channel up while you're watching 20-30 seconds 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?

Thanks

Cam