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