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I want to get off using MCE for streaming, but it seems hardware support for TV tuners and remotes in linux is kind of scarce. Does anyone know of a good digital TV tuner that plays nice with linux AND OR a good remote control with the option of assigning actions to buttons without going way too deep into .conf files or the like? Thanks for reading!

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Have you had a look at XBMC? I thought the standard Win remotes were supported. Also the site should have details on supported tuners. Other sites to look at would be MythTV.

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I havent looked at XBMC yet, though I`ve heard good things. I`ve had other issues with linuxmce and mythtv in the form of mythbuntu, but since i was trying to install those on antiquated systems with obsolete hardware that could be the problem. I know most distros have a card compatibility list, but i wasn`t as sure about remotes!

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It's not really my area, I still have a 14" CRT for TV duties. Had a quick look and found this though:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?tit [...] ol_Reviews

That's the good news. Now for the bad. I'd gotten a bit mixed up in that while you can have live TV/PVR fronted by XBMC it is only a front end, you still have to use something like Myth on the back-end. Having had a look through the Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC

it does make mention of other options.

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So far xbmc on Ubuntu 'just works' with my MCE remote, but it sometimes takes a few seconds to notice that the remote is there.

And yes, you need a backend too: we have an Ion system plugged into the TV running xbmc talking to a MythTV backend on the file server.

Message edited by MarkG on 09-02-2010 at 08:27:14 PM

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