[mythtv-users] Remote Control Options...

Michael Tiller michael.tiller at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 14:00:22 UTC 2008


I did a clean install of Ubuntu and MythTV last weekend.  Wow, things have
come a long way since I first started.  I had everything I needed out of the
box!  Great work.

Anyway, everything is working great (generally better than before) except
that for some reason my PVR-150 IR receiver isn't working.  I've run all the
diagnostics I can all the way down to running "mode2" and I don't get
anything.  Lirc is running and it sees my Hauppauge IR receiver just fine.
Anyway, that isn't the point of the email...just some background to explain
my motivation.

Frankly, this remote thing has been a thorn in my side for a long time so
I'd like to "revisit" this.  I was using the PVR-150 but LIRC is a bit of a
hassle and the RC-5 only limitation of the PVR-150 is a really annoying
aspect as well.  So, I'm wondering what my options are here.  I don't want
to spend much money, but I'm just wondering what other people use.

I have an HDHomerun and my fallback would be to move that into the living
room and use the IR pickup on that.  It seems quite solid and it doesn't
seem to have the RC-5 limitation either.  For various "connectivity"
reasons, moving the HDHomerun may be impractical so I'm keeping that my
fallback.

One thing I noticed in playing with HDHomerun (what a cool piece of hardware
that is!) was the "UDP" aspect of LIRC.  That is pretty neat.  What other
devices use UDP?  I assume the UDP data that is being sent is fairly low
level IR information so I would think that talking with LIRC that way would
be pretty hard unless you were feeding it data directly from an IP pickup.

I don't want to build my own IR receiver (I want to go in completely the
opposite direction...I don't have that kind of time).  An ideal solution
would be a simple, cheap USB based device but when I've looked at those in
the past it always seemed like there was some issue with LIRC and some USB
devices (IrDa?).

I saw this thing <http://iguanaworks.net/product1.psp> from IguanaWorks.
Anybody have any experience with this?

Another thing I considered were "high-end" mice or mini-keyboards using RF.
For example, at work we have a little USB device for operating PowerPoint
remotely.  I wonder how effective this would be for MythTV?  Another thing
I've considered is "gyroscopic" mice.  Anybody used those with MythTV?

Basically, I'm interested in finding out all the options.  Surely there are
some very nice non-PVR-150 solutions out there so I'd like to hear what they
are.

Thanks

--
Mike
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