[mythtv-users] mce usb remote on F11

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Jeff Clemens wrote:

> Ok, so I finally had to update to F11 (after having run FC6 since it  
> was bran spankin new), since my cable company decided to do away  
> with analog.  So went out and bought a nice shiny HVR-1600.  Got it  
> set up and working, but can't use the remote that shipped with it,  
> since, for some messed up reason, Hauppauge shipped a card with no  
> remote input jack, with a remote.  All the documentation that came  
> with the card shows a remote jack, that just doesn't exist on the  
> card that came in the box.

Hah, that's neat...

> Luckily (or so I thought), I still have an old Media Center remote  
> that I used to use with the FC6 install.  But I can't seem to figure  
> out how to get it to work on F11.
>
> The reciever shows up on lsusb as follows:
>
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0471:0815 Philips eHome Infrared Receiver
>
> lsmod looks like this:
>
> lirc_mceusb                 14060   0
> lirc_dev                       10660   1 lirc_mceusb
>
> but I can't seem to get it to return anything when I run irw.
>
> It's been so long since I set it up last time, it's hard to  
> remember, but I seem to think it needed mceusb2...

No, lirc_mceusb is correct. lirc_mceusb and lirc_mceusb2 were merged  
upstream, as well as in the Fedora kernels. Your problem lies  
elsewhere. Do you have an appropriate lircd.conf in place?

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com