So, just the remote control to do now.   A few weeks ago, I bought an FLIRC USB dongle and a One For All remote control, which can work as a Microsoft Media Center (sic) remote if you use the code 1272 on it.  Configuring the FLIRC device was pretty much as simple as plugging the dongle into a USB port and running the supplied software on it (I used the Windows version, but there is also a Linux version too). Continue reading →

In my last article, I talked about my PVR hardware build.  This is now complete, so this blog post is going to talk about the software build.  The PVR software is entirely built on Debian so is entirely open-source apart from the binary firmware blob I needed to make my Hauppauge TV card work. Continue reading →