Remote solution

I got my Logitech Harmony 525 working as I wanted with Lirc. Now there's enough buttons to cover the VDR usage and key-repeats work also fine with internal ir-receiver. But, I noticed that I cannot wake up the Mini from sleep with remote. It is working if Mini is put to sleep from OS X, but doesn't work from Fedora.

I checked /proc/acpi/wakeup and enabled all the USB devices from there by typing:

echo "USB1" > /proc/acpi/wakeup

But didn't help in case of the remote. USB keyboard and Bluetooth mouse did woke up the Mini, but neither Harmony or Apple Remote did. Then I plugged in the Satelco's ir-receiver and noticed that using Satelco remote Mini wakes up. So I'm going to buy Logitech Harmony 525, teach one button from Satelco remote as power command to Harmony and use the Satelco ir-receiver for wake up events.

Another good option could have been Playstation 3's Bluetooth remote. The price is about the same than second hand Harmony 525 and there is enough buttons also. You can get PS3 remote working with Linux using bdremote drive, which maps the buttons from Bluetooth to Lirc. But I decided to go with Harmony as that can be also used for controlling other devices if needed.