[mythtv-users] PVR-350 remote?

[Henrik Gammelmark]

Henrik Gammelmark wrote:

> I am having difficulties understanding how lirc works with the PVR-350 
> remote (the "new" one) and MythTV.
> 
> I have installed lirc, and lircd is running as a deamon.
> In /etc/lirc/lircd.conf I have pasted the mapping from IR signals to 
> names, that I found on the net.
> 
> In /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc, I have put the mappings from the latter 
> names onto Myth commands.
> 
> When I run mythfrontend, it connects to the lircd deamon (or at least 
> some socket somewhere), and it reads the lircrc file fine (at least it 
> doesn't report errors, and complaints if the file is not there).
> 
> My problem then is, that when mythfrontend starts up, the keys are all 
> messed up. E.g. the "8" key is up, while "2" is down etc. Does 
> mythfrontend ignore the mappings in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf because it 
> autodetects a PVR-350, and uses some built-in mappings from the old 
> PVR-350 remote (which has different IR mappings, I read somewhere)?
> 
> Other weird symptons:
> - The lircd deamon seams to shut down whenever mythfrontend starts
> - "irw" terminates instantly and also seem to kill the lircd deamon
> 
> Using Debian testing on linux 2.6.16.20.
> Running MythTV 0.19.20060121-2 (SVN) with PVR-350 and PVR-500.
> 
> / Henrik

*bump*

I have been looking a bit on the myth sourcecode regarding lirc, and it 
does not seem to have any defaults? But how come it then works when the 
lircd is not running?