[mythtv-users] Setting up remote control from Hauppauge 1600

[Deyan]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
...
> Why do you have a tuner card in a machine not running a backend?
>
> You can run mythbackend and mythfrontend on the same machine.  However, you
> must have tuners in the backend, IR receivers in the frontend.  If you are
> not running a frontend on the machine with the 1600, you cannot use the IR
> receiver for anything useful.

If you have a remote with an RF extender then you can have the IR
received on your backend and connect the frontend lirc daemon to the
backend and it will pick up the signals from it.

This is what I do on my laptop that I only use occasionally as a
frontend and it works quite well.

--dejan