[mythtv-users] Nova-t remote with linux 2.6

[Andy Whitworth]

Hi,

I got my Nova-t remote working with Myth last night after a couple of
days frustrating effort.  I use Fedora Core 3 and kernel 2.6.10, lircd 0.7.
My Nova-t card is one of the newer conexant based models with the
remote receiver plugged into the back of the card.  The remote is the
black/grey Hauppauge control.

What worked for my setup:-

1. Followed the instructions here:-
http://spamtastic.demon.co.uk/v4l/

2. Compiled lirc using the "Other->/dev/input" driver option
3. Run lircd as "lircd --driver=dev/input --device=/dev/input/event2
-p 660 /etc/lircd.conf
4. Ensure myth is compiled with native lircd support (check settings.pro)
5. Enjoy.

With this setup I don't need a /dev/lirc device, just a /dev/lircd
pipe which lirc ."make install"
created but doesn't get recreated on reboot using udev.  So at the
moment I've got a mknod
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to create the pipe, change the permissions so
all can rw and then start lircd (params as above).  There are '
better' ways of doing this and I'll be tweaking that next.

Hope this helps!

Andy.


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:41:00 +0000, Mark Howells <mark.howells at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been away from mythtv for a while but have now restarted mythtv
> project./  I've got a Nova-t dvb card but can't get the remote to
> work.  It partly works, in as much as the buttons 0 through 9 deliver
> some events to /dev/input/event0.  So, for example when I press '1' on
> the remote i get '1111' on the active terminal window.  However,
> evtest doesn't detect anything on any remote press (even the '1'
> button).
> 
> I expected that all events would be routed to event0 - but something
> is obviosly preventing that and somewhat erroneously translating a
> single key press into a 4 byte string.....
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> mark
> 
> 
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