[mythtv-users] AM2 Motherboard with PCI slots galore

[Robert Kulagowski]

Brian Wood wrote:
> Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>>> Correct. I was thinking that I had seen blasters that worked with a USB 
>>> adapter, but now that I think about it those were the "MyBlaster" units 
>>> that used the serial port in a standard manner and did not depend on 
>>> computer-generated timings.
>>>
>>> Sadly, I believe those blasters are no longer available (at least not new).
>> http://www.commandir.com/mini/applications
> 
> Interesting. This is not the "MyBlaster", which did not require LIRC and 
> could be driven by a perl script directly. The MyBlaster had the 
> "smarts" in it, so it actually generated the IR codes and timing and had 
> a pretty good list of them internally. It could also learn in case you 
> needed to control something it didn't know about out of the box.
> 
> But this looks like a good solution to needing multiple emitters, not 
> having a serial port, and the price seems reasonable.

Don't have one, not affiliated with them in any way, but I think they 
also embed smarts so that it can just a command hand-off from the host 
and do what it needs to do.