[mythtv-users] totally confused about remotes.

Dan Morphis dan at milkcarton.com
Fri Jun 4 12:38:32 EDT 2004


Matt Morgan wrote:

>  OK, I know a lot about Linux but had never before two weeks ago given
>  a moment's thought to my TV, cable box, or remotes. Just so you know
>  where I'm coming from. Thanks to some helpful people I now
>  understand what an IR Blaster and some other important prerequisite
>  info for MythTV. But I'm confused about how many remotes I need, and
>  which remotes I need, and whether I need to set up two instances of
>  lirc, as in
>
>  http://members.cox.net/rwraithr/IRBlaster_Howto.txt.
>
>  Basically, I think my confusion is this: I can find instructions
>  about how to do anything, but I can't find instructions telling me
>  what, of all those options, is what I actually want to do. That is,
>  I'm totally unclear on which sets of instructions I need to follow
>  and why.
>
>  So here's the simplest way to phrase a question about this. I have a
>  Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2200 cable box. I want a PVR basically
>  for two important tasks: commercial skipping and recording shows when
>  I'm away or in bed. I'll use other features (like weather) if they
>  work, but not if it means having more devices. I'm likely to buy a
>  Hauppauge PVR-250 with the remote it comes with, if that helps, and I
>  want the simplest array of hardware with the fewest possible pieces
>  (remotes, IR blasters, whatever). That is, I want one remote in my
>  hand that does everything. How can I do that?
If you want one remote, then don't go w/ the one that comes w/ the 
pvr-x50 cards.  They only understand the rc-5 ir protocol.  I would 
build your own ir transceiver.  It should cost < $15 to do it.  If you 
searched the archives 
(http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users) you could find 
instructions I've given numerious times on how to build the sender 
portion,  and this link has instructions on how to build the receiver 
portion http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/?partType=section&partName=parts



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