From: Paul B. <peb...@sa...> - 2007-03-30 13:37:59
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Hal wrote: > What alternatives have people used? I'm about ready to stop beating my > head against the wall with lirc. > > Wireless keyboard, of course, but that's pretty bulky and may not have > enough range. > > Buy a capture card that comes with it's own remote. Then I have yet > another remote kicking around, plus I still probalby have problems > making it work with linux. > > Any better solutions? From previous posts, I assume that you are having trouble with getting your homemade IR receiver to work. If you are considering buying new hardware to solve the problem, then you could consider buying an IR receiver. Over time, I have used three different solutions to control my MythTV frontend. First, I used an IR keyboard. In addition to having the keyboard, I trained my universal remote to send the IR keyboard commands so that I did not always need the IR keyboard. However, this method did not give me the control that I wanted. Since different applications (MythTV, MPlayer and Xine) used different keys for the same function, I could not program my IR remote to seamlessly control the three different applications. Second, I used the Ira receiver <http://www.home-electro.com/ira3.php>. It uses LIRC's irman driver. Once I generated lircrc file for a remote that I had, it worked fine. However, I did not like the remote that I had. I preferred this solution to the IR keyboard solution, because using LIRC allowed me to seamlessly control MythTV, MPlayer and Xine through their native LIRC support. Now, I use a Microsoft Windows Media Center Remote <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16880100851>. It uses the LIRC's mceusb2 driver and LIRC's lirc_mceusb2 and lirc_dev kernel modules. I prefer this solution to the Ira receiver solution, because the receiver uses USB rather than RS232 and because the remote is better than any of my existing remotes for controlling MythTV, MPlayer and Xine. |