[mythtv-users] TwinHan IR remote and receiver problem

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Apr 5 10:21:17 UTC 2006


On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:07 AM, ffrr wrote:

> 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 :)
>>
>
> 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.
>

I believe you are correct, LIRC is not needed for such a setup, myth  
(and Linux in general) just treats the device as a keyboard.


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