[mythtvnz] RF remote works with linux?

[Brett Miller]

Just kidding.
Have done the same & worse.

The more the merrier.

On 18/03/2010 9:42 p.m., Nick Wallingford wrote:
> 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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