[mythtv-users] Need IR receiver recommendation

[Jason Ramey]

Lane Schwartz wrote:

>Jarod, is this what you mean?
>
>http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=80-100-851&depa=0
>
>If so, can you confirm that it does work with Myth? The newegg
>description says, in big red letters, "THIS IS NOT A UNIVERSAL REMOTE
>CONTROL! THIS REMOTE WILL ONLY WORK WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP MEDIA
>CENTER OPERATING SYSTEMS!"
>
I'm gonna hazard to say yes, this will work. This is the latest (2005) 
version of their MCE remote, key layout is different but the receiver 
looks the same. I have one purchased early in 2004 from newegg and it 
works great. It will only work for receiving though, the IR blaster that 
comes with it is non-functional (at the moment?) To use it requires 
using at least lirc 0.7.0. That hasn't made it into the debian 
repositories yet, dunno about RPM-based distros. Hope that helps.

-- 
Jason Ramey
majordomo at permutation.org