Hi, I'm a poor college student who has a Leadtek 2000 XP Deluxe Card. The problem is that LIRC reads Multiple Buttons as the same code. IE: Pressing Stop while watching IRW outputs a certain string of data and pressing the number 2 outputs that exact same string. I'm fed up with all of the tinkering so I'm ready to buy an external remote. I have a serial port available if it needs to be used. Can anyone suggest a good cheap one that is very easy to get running (IE either use lirc-reconfig.sh or manually copy the two necessary files)? Thanks I appreciate your advice.

cant go past streamzap. Its used in the dragon - and just works. Its not overly expensive - you might find something slightly cheaper .. but as you mentioned.. sometimes the extra 10 bucks is worth so as to not waste many hours.

I concur on the Streamzap. However, if you have more than one Mythbox & want different remotes for them, Use a Firefly. You can run setup for Streamzap, it'll squawk not finding the Streamzap receiver, but it'll do it, setting you up for a USB remote. Then as you noted, manually sub in the lircd & lircrc files for the Firefly (Multiple places on the forum- search..) & you got it !

definitely streamzap, great remote that just works.

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Thanks Everybody I got mine today and it works great!!! BTW If anybody is looking for a good deal Buy.com has it for $28 and you can get $10 off if you use google checkout for the first time.