[mythtv-users] Obscure question, Can I stream remote control commands over the network?

[Dom H]

This worked great thanks, fwiw I needed to keep the driver/dev args on the
(frontend) lirc command along with the --connect.

Thanks.

Dom

On 10/05/06, Kevin Vee <kkvenkit at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 5/10/06, Dom H <speedsix.lists at googlemail.com > wrote:
> > > I have moved my mythbackend to a seperate machine which obviously now
> > houses
> > > my tv card. Problem is my remote reciever connects directly to the
> > card.
> > > Instead of buying another reciever for the frontend(can you buy
> > recievers
> > > seperately? How would you learn the keys without a remote?) Can I
> > stream the
> > > commands to LIRC on the frontend over the network?
> > >
> > > My card is a new Hauppauge Nova-T with the grey/silver remote, I
> > believe it
> > > creates something in the /dev/ dir for the keypresses.
>
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>
> Very possible as I've done it myself.
>
> lirc supports daisy-chaining of remote commands. Go to
> http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html and search for "daisy-chain". On
> the machine receiving the networked lircd commands I run, "lircd
> --connect=machinename 8765"  (where 8765 is the tcp port).
>
> Cheers
> Kevin
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