[mythtv-users] Nova-t remote with linux 2.6
Christopher McEwan
christopher.mcewan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 06:24:42 EST 2005
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:04:22 +0000, Andy Whitworth <andywhit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Hi, I am just about to move from FC2 with Nova-T (conexant) to FC3, I
built the system before IR support was added. Can you post the
additions you made to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Thank you.
--
Regards,
~CM
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