[mythtv-users] Remotes, IR Receivers and MCE remotes

[Tom Lichti]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>
>> I have gone through hell and back to get a solid, working remote. For
>> a long time I had excellent results with a Home-Electronics serial IR
>> receiver, and any remote I cared to use. Then I upgraded my frontend
>> and it didn't have a serial port, so I got an IguanaIR USB
>> receiver/transmitter, but I never ever got that working very well. It
>> was either too sensitive, or not sensitive enough, and really killed
>> the WAF. Then I bought this:
>
> You could have stuck with what you had and gotten a cheap USB->Serial
> converter. I've had about 4-5 different brands and they all work out
> of the box in linux for me.

Tried that, didn't work. The IR receiver may have died at the same
time, since I couldn't get it to work on another machine either.

Tom