The StreamZap PC remote is also excellent and quick to setup: <a href="http://www.streamzap.com/">http://www.streamzap.com/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lichti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:redpepperracing@gmail.com">redpepperracing@gmail.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><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Chuck Peters <<a href="mailto:cp@ccil.org">cp@ccil.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> It seems that buying just an IR receiver is costlier than buying a remote<br>
> with a IR receiver. That doesn't make a lot of sense. With all the old<br>
> remotes around it would be nice to buy a receiver and program whatever<br>
> remote... Is it possible to find a good inexpensive USB IR receiver?<br>
><br>
> The mythtv wiki has a couple of pages on MCE remotes and it looks like one<br>
> needs to be careful about which one to get.<br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Generic_HID_" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Generic_HID_</a>"MCE"_Remotes<br>
><br>
><br>
> These two appear fairly similar and work from what I can tell. A similar<br>
> Pinnacle model for $29.99 did not seem to work well for one mythbuntu user.<br>
> What is most preferred by people?<br>
><br>
> Microsoft A9O-00007 WinXP Media Center Infrared Remote Control $38.99<br>
><br>
> Anyware HA-IR01SV Infrared Certified MCE VISTA Remote Control $21.99<br>
<br>
</div></div>I have gone through hell and back to get a solid, working remote. For<br>
a long time I had excellent results with a Home-Electronics serial IR<br>
receiver, and any remote I cared to use. Then I upgraded my frontend<br>
and it didn't have a serial port, so I got an IguanaIR USB<br>
receiver/transmitter, but I never ever got that working very well. It<br>
was either too sensitive, or not sensitive enough, and really killed<br>
the WAF. Then I bought this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=018276&cid=ET.674" target="_blank">http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=018276&cid=ET.674</a><br>
<br>
which comes with a USB IR receiver, and it worked out of the box with<br>
Ubuntu 8+ and FC8. The IR receiver shows up as:<br>
<br>
Philips eHome USB IR Transceiver and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control<br>
<br>
and in LIRC I just used the OOB MCE config file, and it worked perfectly.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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