[mythtv-users] Lite-On IR Keyboard and Learning Remotes

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Thu Mar 31 17:29:29 UTC 2005


PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
>>>>>"Michael Haan" <michael.haan at gmail.com> 03/21/05 11:35 AM >>>
>>>>
>>>>"Michael Haan" <michael.haan at gmail.com> 03/21/05 11:57 AM >>>
>>
>>Really?  Is there any confirm (or reasonably imply) that this is 
>>true before I go buy another keyboard (not that $29 is over the 
>>top, just don't need extra keyboards laying around)?
>>
> 
> 
> Replying to a fairly old thread, but here's what I've determined.
> 
> I purchased the AirBoard wireless keyboard - just like this one:
> 
> http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/keyboard/sk7100.asp 
> 
> It's model SK-7100.  I have 4 learning, programmable remotes:
> 
> 1 Onkyo, 1 MX-500, 1 MX-700 and 1 RS-2116.
> 
> Each one of them learned everything I could throw at it with 
> this keyboard.  I even found out by accident when my mythfrontend 
> core dumped (or seg faulted, can't remember which), that if 
> I have a command line session open and the focus went to 
> that window (it happened three times last night to me), I could 
> even hit the up arrow on each of them (until my mythfrontend 
> script came up in the history), hit the enter or select button, 
> I could just restart mythfrontend.  I've since put in a cronjob 
> to restart if it crashes, but I accidentally discovered this, so I'm 
> reporting it.

I've used airboards (2) with Marantz learning remotes since about
1998, long before myth. They are lightweight, easy to hold, have
far and away the best pointing device of any wireless keyboard I
tried (lots =) and the range and angle are incredible. Because
the remote is just sending keys as if from the keyboard, you could
do anything that the keyboard could do. My remotes have macros
so I used to create macros to do some small common commanline tasks
outside of the video apps that the remote was normally used for.
However, most of the time you eventually pick up keyboard anyway
when doing commandline stuff so I really don't bother with this
anymore. One of the most obvoius limitations of using a remote
with an X desktop is that there is no good way to control the
mouse but this is not a problem in a mouseless app like myth.

> No LIRC.  Just a keyboard/mount wireless interface.  Everything 
> even works when going through a Xantech IR repeater.  
> No extra IR stuf, no extra cables.  

LIRC is a blind spot for me. Never used it, don't foresee using it.

--  bjm


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