[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: RF blaster

[Mike Carron]

From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:51 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: RF blaster

 

Thanks Erik/Mike.  I probably can't. Stupid question, please ignore. :-).

 Cheers!


On Saturday, September 28, 2013 01:49 CEST, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
 

 

 
 

From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:38 AM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: RF blaster

 
Hi,
I discovered by accident yesterday that my Motorola VIP-1853 IP-STB standard remote must be a RF device. The STB also accepts IR from my Logitech Harmony.

However, the discovery does give me a chance to solve a problem that I've been delaying tackling for years: How to send channel changes from MythTV without an ug ly IR blaster taped to the front of my STB.

So I'm wondering:

Does anyone have any experience of using one of these:

X10 R.F. PC Transceiver (CM19A) <http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0027RMIAO/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new> 

together with:
X10 CM19A Linux (and Windows!) Driver <http://m.lemays.org/projects/x10-cm19a-linux-driver> 

>From MythTV?

 Using it in a channel change script should be a piece of cake (much simpler than lirc) if it works with recent flavours of Linux (I'm running Ubuntu 12.10).

Cheers!

--Marius—
 
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I’m not sure what you would use it for in context of a MythTV system. It controls X10 devices and I’ve never seen an X10 STB. 
 
mike

 

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Not stupid by any means. In fact, interfacing home entertainment with home automation systems is inevitable and it will be much better if it is done in an open fashion rather than through competing proprietary versions.

 

mike

 




  

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