On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:53 +0000, Laz wrote: > I've been following various threads over the past year or so exploring > various options for having a server-client vdr setup and it got me > thinking. > > I'm currently using a home-brew LIRC receiver attached to a serial port > which works perfectly. The ION-based boards look very nice as a vdr front > end (using xinelibout or some yet-to-be-written plugin!) because they can > do hardware HD decoding. However, I suspect a lot of these lack a serial > port so my simple LIRC receiver would be no good.
My Asus ION motherboard has a serial heading in the motherboard. I'm using it for home brew serial LIRC receiver. > > What are others doing in this sort of situation? USB-based receiver (there > are a couple described at lirc.org), or do most of the ION boards still > have a serial header (must admit, not looked into this properly yet!)? I used for a while a USB-BT dongle plus PS3 Blu-Ray remote with that ION mobo. RF was pretty robust & snappy compared to IR. See http://code.google.com/p/bdremote-ng/wiki/README BR, Seppo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
