[mythtv] seperating backend/frontend
Grant Taylor
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Tue Jan 14 00:41:40 EST 2003
>>>>> mythtv-dev@snowman.net writes:
> It appears the problem here not that LIRC doesn't support network
> transparency, but instead that the IR receiver can only be plugged into
> the caputer card which is in a remote location. If the IR receiver was
Doh - IR! I was thinking it was one of the RF remotes, like I used to
have plugged into a random nearby computer in the next room...
Anywho, there's a 95% chance the dongle uses a serialish connection.
You should be able to lop off the connector and intersperse the usual
cat5/rj45 cabling. Try it and see; if it doesn't work you can always
bail and buy an IR repeater or tuner-agnostic IR receiver.
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