[mythtv-users] Advice on using an RF remote?

[David Brieck Jr.]

I have two Firefly's setup myself, one for each frontend. I'm not sure I
understand the reasoning behind the "IR part" to control the TV though as
LIRC doesn't care whether it's IR or RF, it will still run the frontend the
same way. If you're referring to turning the TV on and off, you could use a
little IR blaster to care care of that and map it to a button on the
Firefly.

http://www.snapstream.com/Products/Firefly/

Incidentally, you will need to change the channel on of the remotes since
the signal does travel well through floors and ceilings.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a couple of Zotac IONITX based frontends that I would like to
> power-down (suspend) when not in use.  I don't really want to use
> wake-on-USB with the IR receiver because of the known issues with the
> early IONITX boards, and also because I often see the IR receiver
> picking up stray signals which would presumably wake up the frontend.
>
> I'm thinking of setting up a universal IR/RF remote to control things.
>  The IR part is needed for controlling the TV.  The RF part would
> involve an RF receiver on the always-on master backend, which would be
> able to remotely suspend the frontends, resume them with wake-on-LAN,
> and use NetworkControls to send keypresses to mythfrontend.
>
> Has anyone done something like this?  Any gotchas?  Any
> recommendations for RF receiver hardware that works with LIRC?
>
> Jim
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