[mythtv-users] blue tooth / wireless keyborad

[Matt Emmott]

On 3/6/07, Matthew Asplund <mattasplund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have to agree with this.  I am using the gyration keyboard and mouse
> with my mythtv box, and it works fantastically.  Well, . . . it works really
> well.  I have never made the extra multimedia buttons to work under
> KDE/mythtv, but that really isn't that important.
>
> Matt Asplund
>
> On 3/2/07, Robert Anderson <riznob at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/2/07, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Friday 02 March 2007 14:24, Brock Palen wrote:
> > > > Does anyone use a wireless/bluetooth keyboard with myth?  If so what
> > >
> > > > do you recommend?  And how simple was it to install.  My system does
> > > > not have blue tooth so I will need to add a adaptor and i am running
> > > > Fedora core 6. I want to have good control over the system more than
> > >
> > > > the remote that comes with the PVR-250,  Thankyou in advance.  (i
> > > > guess fancy remotes fallinto this question also)
> > >
> > > I use a wireless keyboard, but it's infrared, not bluetooth. It's a
> > > Lite-On
> > > SK-7500 that I picked up on eBay a year or two ago. It's got keys
> > > similar to
> > > most desktop keyboards, but with a layout more like that of a laptop
> > > (with
> > > some keys doing double duty as the numeric keypad). It's also got an
> > > integrated "mouse" (really more like a joystick). It required no
> > > special
> > > configuration; I just plugged it in and it worked like a normal
> > > keyboard.
> > > (The mouse looks like a standard PS/2 mouse to X.) I've configured my
> > > One For
> > > All URC-6131 remote (with JP1 extensions) to emulate the keyboard, so
> > > I don't
> > > need LIRC at all.
> > >
> > > For the most part, this works well. The main drawback is that the IR
> > > receiver
> > > occasionally misses the key-up part of the IR signal from the URC-6131
> > >
> > > remote, and MythTV responds as if this were many keypresses in quick
> > > succession. Perhaps disabling auto-repeat in X would fix this, but I
> > > haven't
> > > gotten around to trying it. I have yet to see this happen when I'm
> > > using the
> > > actual keyboard.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rod Smith
> > > http://www.rodsbooks.com
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> > >
> >
> > I used to use the Micro$oft bluetooth desktop keyboard and mouse. It
> > worked well, but it was kinda a pain in the ass because the devices would
> > fall off the network and need to be added back on pretty regularly. But when
> > they were on the network they worked great. I have since switched to using a
> > wireless keyboard and mouse from Gyration www.gyration.com. Very happy
> > with it.
> >
> > --
> > Rob Anderson
> > riznob at gmail.com
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
I'm also using the Gyration mouse and keyboard - Got them from woot.com for
30 bucks. It's the first gen mouse, but I've had no problems. It's RF to
USB; truly plug and play, it even works in the BIOS. I use the keyboard all
the time from my couch and am starting to prefer it over the remote.
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