[mythtv-users] TwinHan IR remote and receiver problem

ffrr ffrr at tpg.com.au
Wed Apr 5 09:07:55 UTC 2006


James Neave wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’ve just installed mythtv for the first time, for which I bought a 
> cheap TwinHan DVB-T card.
>
> I have live tv working, no EPG yet but that’s another problem.
>
> My first problem is that an IR remote and receiver came with my card 
> and it’s a HID keyboard device.
>
> It connects up fine; I can enter chars with in on the terminal. I’m 
> now trying to get it to work with mythtv.
>
> Most of what I did afterward was guess work based on documentation.
>
> I downloaded lirc 0.8.0 and configured it up for /dev/input.
>
> Then I compiled and installed it.
>
> At this point I had no /dev/lirc or lirc0
>
> I scrounged an init.d script for Debian/Ubuntu and eventually figured 
> out that I needed to reconfigure it to point at /dev/input/event1
>
> Then I used irremote to create a lircd.conf file for it and irw is now 
> reporting my remote presses correctly.
>
> It’s still sending keys to the buffer though, is that going to 
> ultimately conflict with lirc?
>
> I put the mythtv lircrc.example file into my home folder as .lircrc 
> and /.mythtv/.lircrc.
>
> But nothing happens in mythfrontend and I’ve run out of docs to stare 
> at, apart from the fact I appear to be missing irxevent?
>
> Do I need that?
>
> MythTV 0.19
>
> lirc 0.8.0
>
> Ubuntu 5.10
>
> Any help would be gratefully received :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim.
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I don't think you can use lirc. I have one of these and the thing to do, 
is to reconfigure myth to match up with the characters that the remote 
puts out.




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