When choosing the perfect chassis for a home theater PC (HTPC), something that is more “consumer electronics” (CE) looking is often desired. Missing Remote reader, Kirby Baker, didn’t just buy off the shelf in his quest. He modified a TiVo Series 1 chassis and built an extremely capable HTPC inside. Kirby did an awesome job and it is a lot of fun […]
Read moreTonight, while pondering my IR receiver, I decided to take it easy a bit and play around with MythTv Player on my laptop. This has led me to another shortfall of my current setup in that I still need to get Mythweb running. Mythweb is very handy for use with MythTv Player because the player doesn’t have the ability to […]
Read moreI’ve been doing a bit of research today and it doesn’t look good. Getting the remote working a matter of installing LIRC (either with yum install lirc or else building it manually). In the past, once it’s installed, I’ve had to load the lirc_imon kernel module which is the driver for my Antec Fusion 430 Black IR receiver. Then I […]
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