PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
"Michael Haan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/21/05 11:35 AM >>>
"Michael Haan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/21/05 11:57 AM >>>
Really? Is there any confirm (or reasonably imply) that this is
true before I go buy another keyboard (not that $29 is over the
top, just don't need extra keyboards laying around)?
Replying to a fairly old thread, but here's what I've determined.
I purchased the AirBoard wireless keyboard - just like this one:
http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/keyboard/sk7100.asp
It's model SK-7100. I have 4 learning, programmable remotes:
1 Onkyo, 1 MX-500, 1 MX-700 and 1 RS-2116.
Each one of them learned everything I could throw at it with
this keyboard. I even found out by accident when my mythfrontend
core dumped (or seg faulted, can't remember which), that if
I have a command line session open and the focus went to
that window (it happened three times last night to me), I could
even hit the up arrow on each of them (until my mythfrontend
script came up in the history), hit the enter or select button,
I could just restart mythfrontend. I've since put in a cronjob
to restart if it crashes, but I accidentally discovered this, so I'm
reporting it.
I've used airboards (2) with Marantz learning remotes since about
1998, long before myth. They are lightweight, easy to hold, have
far and away the best pointing device of any wireless keyboard I
tried (lots =) and the range and angle are incredible. Because
the remote is just sending keys as if from the keyboard, you could
do anything that the keyboard could do. My remotes have macros
so I used to create macros to do some small common commanline tasks
outside of the video apps that the remote was normally used for.
However, most of the time you eventually pick up keyboard anyway
when doing commandline stuff so I really don't bother with this
anymore. One of the most obvoius limitations of using a remote
with an X desktop is that there is no good way to control the
mouse but this is not a problem in a mouseless app like myth.
No LIRC. Just a keyboard/mount wireless interface. Everything
even works when going through a Xantech IR repeater.
No extra IR stuf, no extra cables.
LIRC is a blind spot for me. Never used it, don't foresee using it.
-- bjm
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