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

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LinHES R8.6.1
BE: AMD64X4, 4GB, Hauppauge usb tuners
FE1: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4, nVidia GT640
FE2: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AthlonX2 4850E 2.5 GHz, 1GB, ASUS GEFORCE 7200GS 256MB
FE3: Asus Eeebox410

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...

Same situation here.

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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me

KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb

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.

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Running Knoppmyth R5F27 since 09/12/07

Hardware Specs

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

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R7.3 Backend
CPU: 1.8 GHz
RAM: 2Gb
Drives: 500Gb IDE; IDE DVD-RW
Mobo: eMachines
Tuners (Analog): PVR-250
Tuners (Digital): DCT-6200 Motorola Cable Box, HDHomeRun (OTA + cable)

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:


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.

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LinHES 8.3, 1 BE, 3 FE

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.

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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R7.3 Backend
CPU: 1.8 GHz
RAM: 2Gb
Drives: 500Gb IDE; IDE DVD-RW
Mobo: eMachines
Tuners (Analog): PVR-250
Tuners (Digital): DCT-6200 Motorola Cable Box, HDHomeRun (OTA + cable)