[mythtvnz] Remotes, lirc and kernel drivers

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> I have now finally finished upgraded myself and my mother to Mythbuntu
> 12.04 with MythTV 0.25+fixes.  The last hurdle I met was getting the
> Hauppauge remotes working on the TD-500 and HVR-900R2 tuners.  I have
> now got it all working using the kernel remote drivers and lirc using
> the devinput driver.  There was a fairly steep learning curve, and
> there are lots of web pages out there that are rather unhelpful.  So I
> would like to recommend this one:
>
>  http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/Architecture_and_Customization
>
> It is for Linhes, not Mythbuntu, but it has an excellent explanation
> of how everything works, what tools to use, and especially how to
> debug your setup.

Thanks, that's a great page!

Frankly the best and easiest remote I have used with mythtv and xbmc
is this one:

http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/

Very easy to set up and use.