[mythtv-users] Dedicated frontend IR remote control without a tuner card.

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Fri Jul 9 13:20:17 UTC 2010


On 7/8/2010 9:55 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
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> Speaking as one of the core lirc developers and the guy who is doing
> the bulk of the kernel driver porting to the new in-kernel IR
> infrastructure, stick with the mce transceiver -- the driver for it is
> merged in an upstream staging tree, pending pull into Linus' tree when
> the 2.6.36 merge window opens. Bundles can be had for $25 or less from
> newegg.com, and you don't *have* to use the bundled remote either, you
> can use just about any remote with them. They support the widest range
> of IR protocols and carrier frequencies of any hardware I know, have
> excellent reception range, and pretty much Just Work (at least, with
> sufficiently new enough code, if you get one of the newer devices...
> :).

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There are quite a few offerings out there, are there any you can 
recommend, say from newegg?  Thanks!


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