<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Michael Tiller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Brad,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Aug 19, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Michael Tiller wrote:<br> <br> > The thing that strikes me in looking at all this is that so many of<br> > the non PVR-150 approaches seem to require patching LIRC (and when I<br> > first built my Myth system so did the PVR-150). It makes you<br> > wonder...what DOES work with LIRC out of the box? :-)<br> <br> </div><a href="http://www.lirc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.lirc.org/</a><br> <br> There's a list of supported remotes and supported hardware on the home<br> page.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, I know. I was sort of joking</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I was basically putting that there for academic purposes for anyone in the future following this thread.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The UDP connection with the HDHR is really slick and it makes you wonder why people don't use that when they add new hardware instead of hacking the source for LIRC and sending out patches. Seems like a very clean interface between the device specific I/O code and the IR interpretation stuff...but what do I know.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I don't use it because I have two other IR receivers built into my box (One in the VFD and one on my capture card) and now I don't need direct line of sight to my HDHR. Personally I think it's kind of ugly so I hide it in my media rack. Black would have been nice. :)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I use the streamzap remote on my AppleTV. Plugged in the USB receiver,<br> chose StreamZap from the IR config in Mythbuntu and it worked. I<br> modified the buttons to my tastes, but the default worked ok.<br> I think I paid $25 at Fry's for it.</blockquote><div><br>OK, that looks promising. They imply on their web site that this should work "out of the box" with LIRC. Can anybody confirm that? :-) </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I thought I just did.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Can the IR receiver be used with other remotes (universal remotes as well)?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>As long as the remotes use the same type of IR codes, yeah. Here's a page that explains IR and the different code set "standard protocols":<div><a href="http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/ir.htm">http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/ir.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>The thing I love about standards is that there are so many to choose from that you can usually find the one you like. ;)</div><div><br></div></body></html>