[mythtv-users] Was: HIPER HMC-2K53A as MythTv Frontend? / SilverStone ML02

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/30/07, James Buckley <xanium4332 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30/05/07, Mark A. Hoover <mahoover at ispaceonline.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Mark A. Hoover wrote:
> > >>> I do think we should start emailing them asking for support. They lost
> > >>> two customers as far as I can tell and who knows how many potential
> > >>> customers.
> > >>
> > >> The sad this is I've been looking for a case just like this one for ages,
> > >> but given that the VFD doesn't work I've gone back to looking at the
> > >> Thermaltake Mozart case.  The only other thing I didn't see was a built-in
> > >> IR sensor....:(
> > > Check out this one
> > > <http://www.antec.com/ec/productDetails.php?ProdID=08738>. I have bought
> > > one but not set it up so I can't guarantee it. It is solidly built and
> > > is supposed to work
> > > <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Volume_Knob_on_Antec_Fusion>. If
> > > you don't insist on a slim case it is an economical alternative. It does
> > > not have built in IR or any provision to add it to the case.
> >
> > I found this looking around tonight.  Looks like SilverStone has come out
> > with a few new cases since the last time I looked.  Anybody try this one
> > yet?
>
> Be forewarned. The remote (an imon-pad) is a pile of junk. Because it
> works/almost works as a mouse, the up/down/lewft/right buttons don't
> have a 'click' when pressed. Ultimatly you either don't trigger a
> keypress or send too many. The IR receiver ONLY works with the imon
> remote as well, so with my LC-11M I had to build a serial receiver and
> mount it next to the vfd in order to get a decent remote working.

there is a driver patch, linked to from the wiki's LC-16M page that
will cause the mouse to act as a directional pad.

as well, the imon IR signals can be learned to any decent universal remote.

-- 
Steve
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