Re: IR USB receiver

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Josu Lazkano wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. I search this page: http://fanshop.ocinside.de/
>
> They sold diferent models includind USB. This will work with LIRC?  
> Someone has buy one of this?

No clue if that works or not. Just remembered there's a USB-based FTDI  
receiver design out there too, dunno if this might be one such device  
that would work with the ftdi driver...


> 2009/7/7 Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...>
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> I have a Sony Bravia remote, the RM-ED006 one. I want to use it to  
> control my future HTPC. I want to know if I need an especial  
> receiver or all the receivers works.
>
> I have been looking for receivers and I search all with a remote,  
> but I just need a USB receiver (without the remote).
>
> Where I can buy a USB receiver for the RM-ED006 remote? Are there  
> different receivers? Best or worst?
>
> I'd recommend a Windows Media Center/eHome USB IR transceiver, which  
> are driven by the lirc_mceusb driver[*]. They typically always come  
> bundled with a remote, but you can just lay it aside. The receiver  
> works with pretty much any ir signal you can throw at it, your Sony  
> remote should definitely work with it. The only other USB receiver  
> I'm intimately familiar with is the iMON receivers, and they're  
> nowhere near as flexible in what they'll receive. The USB IguanaIR  
> and CommandIR II also come to mind as options, but I'm less familiar  
> with either of those. The CommandIR II is probably overkill (and  
> over $$$) for what you need, its got 4 IR transmitters, and iirc, it  
> doesn't accept as wide a range of signals as the MCE receivers.
>
> [*] lirc_mceusb2 in lirc 0.8.5 and earlier for most of them,  
> lirc_mceusb for the original receiver, then in 0.8.6, they're all  
> supported by a single lirc_mceusb driver.

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