[linux-dvb] Re: Avermedia DVB-T Remote Control

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 05:47:56PM +1000, Mike Harris wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get the remote control on the Avermedia DVB-T card
> working?
> 
> I have tried using lirc with the lirc_gpio module, thinking that since
> the BT878 is used in the card & it has a GPIO port, maybe they would
> have connected the remote to it. No luck. Anyway, after reading the
> specs on the BT878 it seems more likely that the GPIO is used to feed
> the dvb data stream in to the BT878.
> 
> Anyone know how the remote receiver is connected?

All I managed to find out is that the actual IR port socket is connected
to one of the ICs on the opposite end of the PCB. That IC is in fact a
microcontroller, whose function could be anything at all.

I didn't follow it any further.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>