[mythtv-users] RH 9.0 - LIRC and PVR-250 - Remote still not working.

[Tako Schotanus]

I never did get the lirc stuff for my PVR-250 to work, but I also had a 
very old IRMan lying around which did work (and I prefer it actually 
because it supports all kinds of remotes, not only the Hauppauge one).

But anyway, the problem was that my IRMan didn't want to work either 
using any of the preconfigured lircd.conf files, so I decided to test 
the irrecord utility (you have to stop lircd first!). And behold that 
one actually did something when I pressed buttons so some data was 
definitely coming in! I then continued to program the entire Hauppauge 
control (I've got the useless black one).

Comparing the new lircd.conf  file with the preconfigured ones showed 
they were quite different so of course I copied the new one to /etc.

And now after restarting lircd irw actually worked!

But be persistent and reboot often because I've found the performance of 
lirc to be very erratic, playing around with the configuration files it 
happened a lot that it would just stop working even when putting all the 
files back to their originals and restarting all possible daemons and 
such. (most likely somebody with more linux knowledge would have known 
how to prevent a reboot, but not me ;-).

Hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,
 -Tako


Roby Adams wrote:

> Ok, I have tried all of the suggestions I've found via search and I 
> still cannot get the PVR-250 remote to work with LIRC.  I have the new 
> grey remote.
>  
> 1.  I uninstalled LIRC that was installed with redhat.  (Actually I 
> think mplayer installed it.)
> 2.  I updated my locate database and searced for lircd, lic_dev.0 , 
> and lirc_i2c.o and they were not found.
> 3.  Downloaded the lirc snapshot of 7.0pre1 or something like that.  
> (The reason I did that is that when I got the regualr CVS and 
> donwloaded and compiled it the version still said 6.6 or whatever(
> 4.  It compiled fine. (./setup.sh ---> Choose Hauppauge i2c--> 
> ./configure--->make--->make install)
> 5. Next I loaded ivtv (It was already loaded actually) then insmod 
> /path/to/newly/compiled/lirc_i2c - Then insmod 
> /path/to/newly/compiled/lirc_dev no errors.
> 6.  Next I tried loading the newly compiled lircd (which reports 
> 7.0pre1 as the ver) with two different config files. The one that 
> comes with lirc for the hauppauge and the one that comes with ivtv.  
> Both have the same results
> 7.  start irw.  Does not exit to the prompt, check.  Press buttons on 
> PVR250 remote and NOTHING!!!! argggghhh.
>  
> No messages in /var/log/lircd.  No system messages.  Lsmod shows all 
> the correct modules loaded.  Lircd does not bomb on irw start.  The 
> remote and cable work because I can use them in windows on the same 
> machine.  The card is installed and works correctly because I can cap 
> video.
>  
> So what now?  How do I download the "latest" cvs of lirc?  When I 
> follow the instructions on www.lirc.org/cvs.html 
> <http://www.lirc.org/cvs.html> and compile I get 6.6.
>  
> Any ideas.  I've read all the posts here and I've gone throught the 
> lirc mailing lists. (can't find a way to search it but I went through 
> about two weeks worth of posts.) 
>  
> Can someone with a pvr-250 and lirc running post the output of "ls-l 
> |grep lirc" run in  /dev so I can check mt devices.
>  
> Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
>
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