[mythtv-users] IR power on for frontend

[Ronald Frazier]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ginsu Squirrel
<ginsu.squirrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> This might not be useful for most people.  But I took a 3-pin IR
> receiver and a micrcontroller and wrote code for the microcontroller
> that detected the power button and then it's tied into the power supply
> of the computer and turns it on when it detects the power button.  And
> it draws it's power from the 5V usb standby.

Do you have any more info about that? I'd love something like that.
I've thought about doing exactly that many times, but I don't know
enough about electronics to make it. Can you customize what button it
responds to? I've been trying to get remote power-on working forever
but can't. The imon device in my case only responds to a specific IR
code. I purchased a USB-UIRT at one point, and it was programmable as
to which button it responded to, but it didn't want to let the system
sleep properly. I purchased another device, but it wouldn't respond in
sleep mode. Thus I've given up on the idea.

What do you need to program it? I've got an old serial port Microchip
PIC programmer from the 90s, but that's it.

-- 
Ron Frazier