Currently I see freevo as a product of great value, to myself as a user and to my group of friends who all enjoy the capabilities it provides. I would happily buy this software if it were made into a marketable product, however I personally have enough skill to achieve the results I seek from my PVR with freevo (after trying myth/showshifter and others) in this spirit I would prefer to contribute to the project than buy a ready made box.
What I believe would be a commercially supportive enterprise would be to open an online shop where people could buy "freevo certified" hardware, a _selection_ of remotes (with configs, bundled lirc software and maybe a bespoke install tool), graphics cards, tv cards and even the possibility of preinstalled freevo hard drives, designed to work with all of the above hardware out of the box, maybe with a "firstboot" style config.
If donations are required to help kickstart the shop, I'm sure the community and also myself personally would add our contributions. That way freevo can become self supporting charitable organisation.
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| So the better solution would be to make better documentation and to | implement a small utilitie with wich freevo (or lirc) can simply learn keys | from your remote by pressing buttons and pointing at your sensor.
I like this idea a lot, the irrecord function already exists in lirc, so how about freevo? Here comes that firstboot idea again.
First boot config * Remote selection, try to detect using a config which recognises the power on button of a bunch of certified remotes. If detection fails then use mode2 to try and sense something, if that works start running through the irrecord setup. * TV Setup I can see arguments here so i won't even suggest something. * Locality selection (for weather/news etc...) and have reasonable defaults for the tv channels/news sites based on locality.
I believe this would be a more suitable out of the box experience.
Karl,
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