[mythtv-users] channel change from remote box

[Paul Bender]

On 1/20/2010 5:49 AM, James Thorpe wrote:
> So last night I connected my newly built frontend to the TV and moved my
> IR receiver to the new box. Unfortunately on doing so I overlooked the
> fact that the backend can no longer change channels as it is also the
> blaster :)
>
> I'm after a way to run the channel change script on my new remote
> frontend, but as initiated by the MBE. My initial thought was to write a
> webpage hosted on the frontend that does the channel changing, then put
> a wget command to get it in the channel change script box. Is that
> complicating it too much?

Why not run the script on the MBE and use lirc's ability to connect over 
the network (see lircd's --listen and --connect options) in order access 
the IR blaster on the frontend?