[mythtv-users] USB IR receiver of choice

Jun Yu junyuu at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 16:16:39 UTC 2006


I am using ATI remote I picked up from newegg for $30 and it is quite good
with LIRC.

On 1/6/06, Nelson Tang <tang at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 1/6/06, Rick <ve1gn at nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Mike wrote:
> > > Apparently I'm the rear end of a donkey. I had a family member order
> two
> > > serial IR receivers from irblaster.info for his new Myth boxes, but
> > > neither of the computers have serial ports. (Go figure, it isn't 1992
> > > anymore.)  I'd rather not throw more PCI cards in these boxes just to
> > > support yesteryear's technology, so are there any users out there that
> > > have recommendations for USB IR receivers that are easy to implement
> > > with lirc and myth?
> >
> > I use this USB to Serial Adapter with  MyBlaster and it works without
> > problems. www.mytvstore.com/product_id_011.html
> >
> > It shows up as dev/ttyUSB0
> >
> > Rick
>
> I can also recommend the Streamzap USB remote/receiver; it was
> trivially simple to implement with lirc & myth (I use Gentoo, and it
> was just a matter of including a USE flag when emerging lirc).  I
> found one at retail for $40 but got one from Amazon more recently for
> $29.
>
> --nelson
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