[mythtv-users] IR to PS/2

[Khanh Tran]

Sure, but at the price of those remotes, I might as well just use a
PocketPC or Palm Pilot.  I'd get more functionality that way, starting
with a browser...

-Khanh Tran
khanh at khanh.net
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Markey [mailto:bjm at lvcm.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:13 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] IR to PS/2

Khanh Tran wrote:
> This may have been asked already, but with all the involvment in 
> getting and IR receiver to work via lirc to MythTV, has anyone made an

> IR to
> PS/2 device?

Wul, yeah. Every wireless keyboard maker ;-).

>  I'm thinking of a device that would work much like bar code readers 
> do, where they transmit keystrokes through a ps/2 or serial keyboard 
> input.  Does such a thing exist for IR remotes?

Several of us user an IR keyboard and learning remote control.
If they are compatible, you can "learn" the standard myth keys on the
appropriate buttons for the remote. This way you can do anything from
either the remote or the keyboard through the same interface. No LIRC
needed.

The trick is that not all remotes can learn from any keyboard.
I use "Marantz RC2000 Mark II" remotes and LiteOn "Airboard"
keyboards. These work just fine. However, in testing some other cheap
learning remotes, none for them were able to understand more than a
handful of keys.

The Airboard is by far the best IR keyboard I've used. However, I also
have a Chicony keyboard that almost any learning remote will seem to
understand.

>  Wouldn't this
> be easier?

Yes.

--  bjm