<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:<br><br>><br>> After giving up on LIRC with my TV Tuner remote I bought a<br>> StreamZap USB<br>> receiver and remote and it worked right away on my Fedora Core 4
<br>> MythTv<br>> box. My problem is that it is tricky to use. You have to press and<br>> hold each button for just the right amount of time. Too long and it<br>> repeats the press. Too short and it skips it. I can tolerate it but
<br>> it nags me. So that is my first problem. The second is that the IR<br>> receiver flashes its bright red LED in my living room 24 hours per<br>> day.<br>> The LED flashes in Windows too but the remote is much more
<br>> responsive in<br>> Windows.<br>><br>> I hoped that the problems were the Streamzap receiver and after it<br>> annoyed me enough I bought a second StreamZap remote and receiver to<br>> test that theory. At least maybe the red LED wouldn't flash any more,
<br>> or so I hoped. Wrong, the new receiver still flashes its LED and is<br>> just as sluggish in MythTv.<br><br>Sounds like you might have something interfering with your remote. Do<br>you have any flourescent lights in the room? Sunlight? Does this
<br>happen at night with all the lights off? Do you perhaps have any RF<br>devices that might be getting into the receiver?</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I have no issues with the receiver, so it sounds like something is interfering with it. Also, I found the receiver will work with just about any remote. I actually redid my
lircd.conf to use my directv remote instead of the Streamzap one -- StreamZap didn't have enough buttons ;)<br></div><br></div><br>