[mythtv-users] remote *receiver* ?

[John Sturgeon]

Shawn Flynn wrote:

>> Buy one of those cheap PC Remote's with serial IR Receiver on e-bay 
>> for like 7 bucks, throw the remote away, and get a 15-2116 from Radio 
>> Shack. I've done it three times for different machines.
>>
>> Here's a link to what I'm talking about: 
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5181277468&rd=1 
>>
>
>
> I have one of those Packard Bell remotes and could never get it to 
> work properly with LIRC. Granted, that was just prior to the Lirc 0.7 
> release while lirc was having a fair bit of trouble playing well with 
> FC2 and I'm not exactly a linux expert, so it is not surprising that I 
> couldn't make it work. I'd like to give it a shot again. Would you 
> mind sharing your configuration info with me? What version of lirc are 
> you using, what does your lircd.conf look like, what does your 
> modprobe.conf look like?
>
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oops.  Forgot one thing.  Here's the important bits from my modprobe.conf:

------------------ begin ------------------
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none ;\
    /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
------------------ end ------------------

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