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Author:  cahlfors [ Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:26 pm ]
Post subject:  advice on Hauppauge remote for frontend-only?
My problem:
I have a Shuttle frontend-only and would like to use a remote to control it.
There are plenty of Hauppauge remotes (silver dogbone) lying around the house (came with the receivers for the backend...) and I would much prefer using them for the Shuttle, too. That way the WAF would feel familiar, I would only need one set of config files etc.

What would be the suggested approach to control my Shuttle with a Hauppauge remote (it doesn't have a Hauppauge card in it and thus no ir -receiver) :?:

Thanks,
/Chris
Author:  slowtolearn [ Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: advice on Hauppauge remote for frontend-only?
cahlfors wrote:
My problem:
I have a Shuttle frontend-only and would like to use a remote to control it.
There are plenty of Hauppauge remotes (silver dogbone) lying around the house (came with the receivers for the backend...) and I would much prefer using them for the Shuttle, too. That way the WAF would feel familiar, I would only need one set of config files etc.

What would be the suggested approach to control my Shuttle with a Hauppauge remote (it doesn't have a Hauppauge card in it and thus no ir -receiver) :?:

Thanks,
/Chris
Does your shuttle have a serial port? If so, I have had success with the IR receivers here: http://irblaster.info/receiver.html
IIRC Mike ships worldwide...
Author:  Gibble [ Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:38 pm ]
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Same situation here.
Author:  adoute [ Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:31 pm ]
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I've got 2 front ends (the 'kids' machines - see hardware in sig) using the same serial receiver mentioned above and remotes that came with the PVR 250's. Works great.
Author:  steeve [ Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:51 pm ]
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adoute wrote:
I've got 2 front ends (the 'kids' machines - see hardware in sig) using the same serial receiver mentioned above and remotes that came with the PVR 250's. Works great.


I'm in the same boat as Chris. How does one go about setting-up the IR Receiver on a diskless FE? Is it simply plug and play?

-sTv
Author:  kmkittre [ Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:03 pm ]
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I use two serial IR receivers and they work great. You can use essentially any remote control with it. After a fresh install of R5F27, this is all I had to do to get it working:

Add the following to the bottom of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:
Code:
#serial port remote
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
modprobe lirc_serial
/usr/local/sbin/lircd
/usr/local/sbin/lircmd


Also, instead of buying a pre-made one, I made my own serial receivers following the instructions here: http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html

Very easy to build. I think I bought most of the parts (if not all) from digikey.
Author:  steeve [ Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:35 pm ]
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kmkittre wrote:
I use two serial IR receivers and they work great. You can use essentially any remote control with it. After a fresh install of R5F27, this is all I had to do to get it working:

Add the following to the bottom of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:
Code:
#serial port remote
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
modprobe lirc_serial
/usr/local/sbin/lircd
/usr/local/sbin/lircmd


Also, instead of buying a pre-made one, I made my own serial receivers following the instructions here: http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html

Very easy to build. I think I bought most of the parts (if not all) from digikey.


Thanks for the info. I ended up buying an IR Receiver from IRBlaster.info.

Stuck it to my Diskless Slave BE, ran "lirc_reconfig.sh" as root, told LIRC I had a "homebrew serial receiver", then told LIRC I had an IR Blaster but that it wasn't in the list (don't think this is necssary, though).

I have a URC-8910 universal IR remote from All-in-One, which is JP1 capable. I downloaded the mythtv files from the JP1 site <http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=category&cat_id=20> and followed the destructions.

Worked perfectly the first time. :D

I must say that MythTV, and KnoppMyth in particular, have come a long way in the years that I've been a follower.

Kudos to the devs!

-sTv
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