[mythtv-users] PVR 150 IR Receiver cable with HomeBrew Serial

[Brian Wood]

On Jun 1, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Greg Woods wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:29 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>>  I suspect the dongle (the
>> receiver part of it anyway) is just the IR LED, so you would not save
>> very much by re-purposing it.
>
> Not only that, but heck, you can buy a Streamzap USB receiver and a
> remote too for about $20, and it's well supported under LIRC.  
> Unless you
> are extremely poverty stricken or really really like to tinker with
> cables and so forth (or have an ancient system that has no USB  
> ports, in
> which case you're poverty stricken :-), I doubt if it's worth the time
> and trouble.

I think any system old enough to not have even USB 1.1 ports would  
certainly have a serial port, or perhaps an ISA slot to plug a multi- 
IO card into ??