Suggestion for a decent, currently-available remote/ir pair for Linux frontend

[dantengwen]

I'm getting pretty sick of the crappy remote I've been putting up with for the six years that I've been running my MythTV frontend (this one). Although I don't use the actual remote, this particular receiver and its button mappings are horrible; The receiver will nondeterministically bind itself to different device addresses upon startup, which forces me to do stupid stuff with my config files, and the button mappings for the remote itself are irritating (play and pause map to the same code, and others are missing), which means I always have to do a ton of customization when I reinstall the box.

Does anyone have a good suggestion for a pair I can get my hands on that will just work out of the box on a clean frontend install without going through a lot of pain?

[Steve Goodey]

I, and others, have found that Flirc is very good option for a pain free and relatively easy setup.

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Flirc

[Gribnif]

I have two Myth boxes which use this remote:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Air_mouse_rf_remote
https://www.amazon.com/d/Remote-Control ... e+keyboard

(This is just an example of one seller; it is so widely available you can probably find it even cheaper elsewhere.)

Two caveats:

1. This remote has a single, non-switchable transmission frequency. So if you use more than one of this remote it your house at the same time, they can interfere with each other.

2. It's not quite a case of "it just works". You have to remap a couple of the buttons, but there are wiki pages on this topic:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Remote_Control
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual ... _via_evdev

I can also give you more details about what I did, if you want to try this particular remote.

[MikeB2013]

I gave up on getting remotes to work and ended up using a mini wifi keyboard, these are palm sized and don't require any configuration (no lirc etc, no remapping of buttons).

As an example, there plenty around, see
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rii-Mini-Wirel ... i+keyboard


If you do go for something like this make sure you get the version which includes rechargeable battery.

[wesnewell]

The only thing I know of that works without some configuration is a wireless remote mini keyboard, since it is just a keyboard after all. All ir remotes will need to be configured in some way. Be it with lircd or ir-keytable. I dropped lircd in favor of ir-keytable some time back for my ir remote usage. But for ir remote usage I created my own ir codes with remote master, uploaded it to my jp1 capable remote and then created my my own keytable code file for it. So it can be as simple or as complicated as you want.
I bought an airmouse and a couple of mini multimedia keyboards. The mini keyboards work a lot better imo, but don't have an ir function to turn the tv on/off.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-3-Colors- ... 2442896285

[busbee]

I'm using mythmote on my android phone. I connects thru the network, which I am always on wifi at home. It works great. Have not discovered all the keys/mappings for things like: go into edit mode E, mark commercials Z, and such (they may be in there, just have not figured it out yet), but it works for skip forward, pause, skip back, play, directions (up,down,left,right), menus and back. Nice enough for me to lay in bed/on couch and watch!

[dborn]

I, and others, have found that Flirc is very good option for a pain free and relatively easy setup.

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Flirc

+1 on the Flirc and any IR remote you fancy.

When I upgraded my old Mythbuntu 10.04 setup to recent 29.0 mythtv running on xubuntu 18.04, I tried to continue using some Snapstream Firefly remotes (non IR) on my frontends but everything I tried failed. Now I got several Flircs with some programmable Logitech remotes and couldn't be happier.

I don't know if the brilliant maker of the Flirc had such a warped sense of humour but I like to think that Flirc actually stands for F*** LIRC! at least that's what it means for me.

[Steve Goodey]

that Flirc actually stands for F*** LIRC!

Never noticed that.