[mythtv-users] NOVA-T-500 Remote

[Nicolas Will]

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 14:42 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Anyone had any joy? I'm a bit new to lirc
> 
> Make sure lirc is using the dev/input driver and is pointing to the
> correct device in /dev/input/.  In the long run, you need to add a
> udev
> rule to create a symlink with a consistent name, because you cannot
> count on the Hauppauge device always having the same eventN number.
> Something like
> 
> KERNEL=="input*", ATTRS{name}=="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB
> receiver", SYMLINK+="input/dvb-ir"
> 
> which would mean that the Hauppauge receiver would always be on
> /dev/input/dvb-ir

messing with this is complicated. Modern distros have better ways.

Really, all the proper information to get this remote completely working
with LIRC is documented here:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500#Remote_control

Including the /dev/input/eventX consistent naming.

Nico