Re: Recommend commercial IR receiver

[Ruediger D. <rue...@fr...>]

Angus March schrieb:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Angus March wrote:
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>>> I had an RS232 serial IR receiver that seems to be broken. I did purchase it, but I'm sure it qualifies as a homebrew. Can someone recommend a commercial receiver that has just about the same features as an RS232, but won't break? This means I should be able to customize it to any remote, and work w/lirc, of course.
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>> Windows MCE USB Transceiver. (Also marketed as an eHome Infrared Transceiver, and a multitude of other things). They're about $25 new, with a bundled remote and two IR emitters, in addition to the receiver functionality, which works with darned near every IR protocol you can throw at it.
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>     "Windows", eh? And it'll work in Linux?
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With VDR-1.7.9 I use the Philips SRM5100.

cd lirc-0.8.5pre2
./configure --with-driver=mceusb2; make