suggestion for USB IR receiver for MythTV?

[warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org (Derek Atkins)]

Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Nope, its got onboard Intel graphics, and nowhere to put an add-on 
> graphics card. Wouldn't be surprised if there was eventually a product 
> refresh that included an onboard nVidia option though... Since the DSH 
> is supposed to be Dell's competitor to the Apple Mac Mini, which is now 
> decked out with nVidia graphics goodness...

Hmm... Can you run Fedora on a Mac Mini? ;)
I wonder how good a Myth Box that would make?

>> Part of this project is to fix my "two cable boxes on one myth backend
>> cause Firewire bus resets and timeouts in the middle of shows when the
>> second box starts to record" problem. I'm also hoping having the boxes
>> on separate machines will also help fix the "can't open port: -1" problem
>> that I get periodically..
>
> Sadly, not enough people w/multiple firewire cable boxes to get this one 
> figured out proper-like, I'm afraid.

I dont understand why there aren't more people, but whatever.  :)

>> Yep... No F/W would be a problem for me.
>
> It would force me to use my HD PVR for all cable box stuff, and an IR 
> blaster for channel-changing, but I suppose could make do. I suspect 
> there will be more ion boards eventually too though.

So what do you use for the channel changer with your HD-PVR?

> --jarod

-derek

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