[mythtv-users] Simple Remote

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:48:30 bit maelstrom wrote:
> > Howzabout this, then:
> >
> >
> > http://shop1.laservers.com/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Hy-tek&Prod
> >uct_Code=TEKPAL&Category_Code=
> >
> > $15, six large buttons (power, mute, vol/chan up/down)
> >
> > It's billed as a universal remote, so set it to something boring
> > and common like a Sony TV (and if that doesn't work, a Philips
> > will), and learn it with irrecord.
> >
> > Excellent! Now to program it...
>
> I realized that's really the challenging part. I want one of the buttons to
> play a random recording....

Could you just call a shell script to play a file? I'd think the $RANDOM shell 
variable might be useful.

Actually, "a non-statistical pseudo-random recording" is possible, probably 
not a truly random one :-)


-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org