[mythtv-users] USB IR Reveiver

[Steve Heistand]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:41:54 -0700, Doug Young wrote
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am after a new receiver for one of my frontends, but since the
> > remotes are costing more second hand on eBay than I paid new for my
> > others, my options are limited.
> >
> > What are others doing for USB receivers?  My main question is, when it
> > comes to LIRC, does it matter much which receiver you have, or is the
> > LIRC config all about the remote codes themselves?  I guess I am
> > worried about support for the USB receiver from within Ubuntu.
> >
> > Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm in a similar boat, and been looking at the usbuirt, but I've also
> been looking at the iguanaworks receiver
> (http://iguanaworks.net/)...anyone have experience with those?  they
> seem to be smaller...possibly easier to hide inside a media case...
> 

I have used them, they are a little more involved getting them to work.
There needs to be another daemon running in addition to lircd that
depends on kernel and various other drivers a little more then usbuirt.

they are a little smaller and have more channels in them then the usbuirt does.
so more external boxes can be controlled with 1 usb device.

in the end I preferred uirt and the little wired IR heads that I plug into it.


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