[mythtv-users] Re: Recommended Remote Controls?
John F DeLuca
mythtv at johnfdeluca.com
Tue Jan 13 18:47:42 EST 2004
I personally use a Tivo remote as it is a remote I am very familiar with,
has distinctive feel buttons (different shapes), is well matched for PVR
functionality, and can be bought alone ($30). The TIVO34 in the philips
folder at lirc.org works well for the Tivo remote (the TIVO file did NOT
work well....it has to be the TIVO34). But the IR receiver is the tricky
part...not the remote. Since I am not well versed in resistors, etc, I
just went to CompUSA and bought a SnapStream PC USB remote ($30 with
rebate which is now expired I think / $40 now). While the remote is fine
and well suited for PVR, I discarded it and just use the receiver with my
Tivo remotes. The only trick is that in order to get my Snapstream remote
to work with lirc, I had to install an lirc patch as follows:
Remote control URL:
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=303538&pfp=srch1
Since I followed Jarod's Fedora Redhat guide, I installed lirc as per his
apt-get commands. Not sure this was necessary.
from http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/#lirc
# export KERNEL=`uname -r`
# apt-get install lirc-kmdl-$KERNEL
# apt-get install lirc
I then needed to get a CVS version as the StreamZap
from http://www.lirc.org/cvs.html
# cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lirc login
(press enter when prompted for password)
# cvs -z8 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lirc co lirc
I then needed to download the patch for StreamZap
from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/szremote/streamzap-0.04.diff?download
I then applied the patch and compiled the driver by following the
instructions here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=177518
Finally, I edited my /etc/modules.conf to include
alias char-major-61 lirc_streamzap
(I also removed/commented out the other lirc statements in my
/etc/modules.conf)
I've sucessfully done it several times as it needs to be done for each
kernel upgrade I do. The only problem I had was with the KnoppMyth
distribution....under Jarod's Fedora Core 1, it works every time.
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