[mythtv-users] AppleTV, lirc, and a Bose Lifestyle RF Remote

[David Schlenk]

Do a little research: apple remotes send some sort of special ID code
along with every message, so its super unlikely that some standard
pack of codes would work. Your best bet would be obtaining a remote
that can learn codes, find about 15 friends with apple remotes and
teach each button on your learning remote one of the codes from the
various remotes, then set up lirc to use those codes. I think the high
end harmony remotes work with RF systems so you could still use your
bose system (but not its remote unless it has learning capabilities).

Why on earth apple crippled their IR hardware as such is a mystery.
Especially since you don't have to pair your remote with your
computer/aTV (that would make some sense so your neighbor holding down
the play button on his remote won't put your laptop to sleep).

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Paul Fine <pfine at comcast.net> wrote:
> My current mythtv system consists of a FE/BE Fedora 7 based system with
> a PVR-350 and a PVR-150 setup via Jared Wilson's guide.  I use the
> Hauppauge remote and IR receiver that came with the PVR-350. The rest of
> my home entertainment hodgepodge consists of a Bose Lifestyle 38 system,
> comcast cablebox and a crappy SDTV.  The Bose system has an RF remote
> which can be configured to act as a type of IR Blaster.  By that, I
> mean, you can configure the Lifestyle 38 to translate various buttons
> presses from the RF Remote to broadcast IR commands, which in turn are
> received by the targeted component's IR receiver.  One of the settings
> on the Bose Remote will allow me to control my cablebox.
>
> The way the Bose Remote is configured is by selecting which specific
> device you want to control.  For the cablebox, I needed to select
> Motorola as my cablebox brand, and then I tried the various offered
> codes for the Motorola until I found the setting that worked best with
> my cablebox.
>
> I recently purchased an AppleTV and have brought up on it (mostly) a
> mythfrontend using Scott Davilla's excellent wikis
> (http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/).  What I would like to do is
> find a setting on the Bose Lifestyle that would allow me to control the
> AppleTV with the Bose RF Remote.
>
> It appears that the Apple IR Remote uses the NEC IR Remote Protocol (see
> http://www.barchard.net/files/apple_ir_remote_analysis.html and
> http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/nec.htm).  My idea was to
> configure my Bose remote for various NEC remote control codes, and then
> use irrecord to see if the AppleIR Remote receiver would respond to any
> of them.
>
> Unfortunately, I did not have any success.
>
> Am I totally offbase thinking that this could ever work?  Any
> suggestions on what I might try next?
>
> My fallback option is to purchase a USB IR receiver, say a MCE remote,
> and then attempt to find the right code in the Bose configuration to
> control my AppleTV frontend with the external USB IR receiver instead of
> the builtin one.
>
>
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