On January 12, 2006 11:00 am, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >> I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote > >> though. I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t > >> and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved > >> wrong]. > > > >I'd also be very interested in knowing how this is done. Currently, my > >power button kills mythfrontend and since its a combined FE/BE and the > >BE is set to shutdown if idle, this will also shut the machine down > >assuming nothing is recording and there are no flagging jobs running. > >I use nvram-wakeup then to automatically power the machine on when it > >needs to record the next show > > I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured > to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send > the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other > commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard > is always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that > computer for some other purpose.
So why doesn't a remote signal meant for your TV, VCR, stereo, etc wake your computer? This always seemed to be the biggest roadblock for using the remote to wake my frontend. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
