[mythtv-users] annoying erratic key presses with remote on HD-PVR

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, January 27, 2010 3:40 pm, J-e-f-f-A MythTV wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Kaushik Mallick
> <kmallick2000 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> BTW, my HD-PVR is sitting next to a CRT monitor where I am doing the
>> trial
>> set up.
>> Is it possible for the IR receiver to get stray signals from the CRT
>> monitor?
>
>
> Sure!   A simple test if that's the issue would be to move the HD-PVR a
> foot
> or more away from the monitor and test again...

I had a problem recently where my IR keyboard's receiver was picking up
scatter from my IR remote and interpreting some of it as keystrokes.  That
was pretty puzzling at first.