[mythtvnz] RF remote works with linux?

[Nick Wallingford]

I'm sorry to have upset everyone...

Having previously only read this through an RSS feed, I was not clear 
how to join to this thread when I subbed to the actual list.

Again, my apologies for anyone who was offended - I certainly did not 
intend such.

Nick in Tauranga

Brett Miller wrote:
> You hijacked this thread..
> 
> Gets everyone upset..
> 
> On 18/03/2010 9:29 a.m., Nick Wallingford wrote:
>> I just got a remote yesterday, a Hauppauge similar to the ones described
>> in this thread.  The output from lsusb -v doesn't give the same TopSeed
>> Technology Corp ID as described, but I didn't have *too* much trouble
>> getting it all to work pretty well - thanks for the lircd.conf, Geoff!
>>
>> The key layout is different again from most that I've seen, but it sure
>> beats having the keyboard as the only viable controller!
>>
>> But I wanna go further!  The mythtv wiki describes how some MCE type
>> controllers are minimally programmable.  That is, on/off and vol up and
>> vol down buttons can be taught the codes from another device.  My
>> interest is I want to use the power on/off to turn the TV power on/off -
>> currently the last thing I have to have that remote hanging about for...
>>
>> But the various instructions such as
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote describe holding down DVD menu and
>> OK until the backlight goes off, etc - but my remote isn't backlit.  How
>> can I tell if my remote is 'teachable', and how do I go about it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Nick in Tauranga
>>
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