[mythtv-users] XBox IR remote & lirc?

[Joshua King]

On 13/9/05 10:59 AM, "David Whyte" <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to go on a humongous tangent, are you guys talking about getting
> IR working on the Xbox?

Yes.
 
> Is this some easier way using lirc?  Can you point me to some starter
> reading somewhere?

This is using the IR remote and receiver that Microsoft sells for the Xbox
-- the DVD Movie Playback Kit (and its cheaper clones), ie,
http://www.gameswarehouse.com.au/longpage.asp?gameid=6895

Gentoo Linux provide the driver when you compile lirc-0.7.0 on an Xbox,
otherwise you can get the patch from Xbox-Linux' CVS.
http://cvs.xbox-linux.org/viewcvs.py/xbox-linux/lirc/lirc-0.7.0-xbox.patch?r
ev=1.1&view=auto

The LIRC support requires a 2.6-series kernel (so using something
Xebian-based I think probably doesn't work), there are other drivers, look
around on http://www.xbox-linux.org, for kernel 2.4.

It's not fully supported by LIRC to my knowledge.

Joshua King

PS. You *can* use other remotes, as always programmed with the appropriates,
the receiver is the important bit.