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| Topic: | Remote control for PC This thread has 3 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday October 11, 2001 at 23:20 |
davebellows Founding Member |
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Hello all, hope this is the best forum for this.
I'm currently working on making a PC the center of my home entertainment system. The thing is that I want to use my universal remote (MX-500) to control the most important functions (MP3 player, DVD, games, whatever). I know there are a few systems out there designed for specific programs, however I'm doing this on a Linux box which excludes Windows options. So here is my current plan:
Get a *cheap* IR keyboard. Turns out that all the apps I'm looking at incorporating into my box have extensive keybindings. If it is possible to teach my MX-500 from an IR keyboard then I would be able to control just about any aribtrary app that has key bindings as long as they don't require key combinations (like ALT+foo, correct?). Does this sound like a reasonable approach to anyone? Is there some other option? Does anyone know of a cheap IR keyboard that can be learned from? Any further suggestions?
Thanks,
David Bellows
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| Post 2 made on Friday October 19, 2001 at 16:44 |
elias Founding Member |
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| OP | Post 3 made on Saturday October 20, 2001 at 15:23 |
davebellows Founding Member |
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Thanks,
However, the computer I'm doing this setup on runs Linux and the software you sent me to is Windows only. In any case I opted for an IR keyboard and taught whatever keys from it I needed to operate my apps with to my MX500 and everything appears to work well.
David Bellows
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday October 24, 2001 at 06:17 |
Serge Founding Member |
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oops, wrong post
This message was edited by Serge on 10/24/01 06:18.25.
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