[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR 350 and LIRC setting up

[Marc Chamberlin]

On 3/31/2010 2:54 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Marc Chamberlin
> <marc at marcchamberlin.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 3/31/2010 1:11 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Scott<pickle136 at sbcglobal.net>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On 3/31/2010 3:27 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>>   From my searching around on the internet, and looking through this and
>>>>> other mail lists, I suspect this may have been answered somewhere, but I
>>>>> was
>>>>> not able to find any answers that I could grok.. (but lots of chatter
>>>>> about
>>>>> this remote!)  So with possible apologies in advance, I wonder if some
>>>>> kind
>>>>> guru could help me get my Hauppauge PVR-350 (gray) remote completely
>>>>> communicating with my media computer? I am running SuSE 11.2 x86-64 and
>>>>> I
>>>>> have installed version 0.8.5.4.1 of lirc and version
>>>>> 0.8.5_2.6.31.5_0.1-4.4
>>>>> of the LIRC kernel modules. Following instructions I have also installed
>>>>> the
>>>>> kernel modules for lirc-i2c and lirc-dev.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am headed towards getting this working for mythTV. I have installed
>>>>> and
>>>>> configure the .lircrc, lircd.conf and the lirc file in /etc/sysconfig/
>>>>> following instructions as best as I could. I have got it going partially
>>>>> in
>>>>> that using ircat I can see the number keys are being recognized, as well
>>>>> as
>>>>> the volume up/down button but nothing else.
>>>>>
>>>>> I dunno what files or command outputs I should include so will wait
>>>>> until
>>>>> I hear further.. So anyone willing to guide me out of these woods? Or
>>>>> point
>>>>> me to a good website that explains in easy to understand terms what to
>>>>> do?
>>>>> Thanks in advance...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   Marc..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> what do you get from IRW?
>>>> most likely you see some keys but not other than the button definitions
>>>> in
>>>> the lircd.conf arnt right. Install and look in the lirc remotes package
>>>> you
>>>> might find the right remote info in there. (FYI theres an newer lirc
>>>> 0.8.6
>>>> in a repo called vdr, but you your case that 0.8.5 should work)
>>>> lircrc only matter once you want to use the remote in lirc
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Not so sure about lirc 0.8.5 working here. I believe there were
>>> numerous i2c changes in 2.6.31 that made lirc_i2c non-functional, and
>>> they weren't fixed until after lirc 0.8.5 was released. I could be
>>> misremembering though. dmesg output from lirc_i2c module load time
>>> would likely say for sure.
>>>        
> I also fail at reading. You said you were getting key presses, just
> not into mythtv. However...
>    
Sorry for the confusion Jarod - I haven't gotten as far as getting 
mythtv configured for running from a remote yet... Trying to take baby 
steps to get there, so right now I am focused on getting the lirc daemon 
to at least recognize the key presses from my Hauppauge remote... And so 
far, using either ircat or irw I can only see that it is responding to 
just the numeric and volume up/down keys. None of the other keys, for 
example channel up/down produce any response yet...

(This project will get even more interesting too... I got two other 
remotes that I am going to want lirc to handle for me as well, but one 
remote at a time....)
> ...your dmesg output shows ir-kbd-i2c binding to the ir receiver, not
> lirc_i2c. That makes a significant difference. The
> lircd.conf.hauppauge config file is for use with lirc_i2c. For
> ir-kbd-i2c, assuming the key map is correct for your remote, you'd
> need to use lircd.conf.devinput, and tell lircd to use its devinput
> driver mode pointed at the appropriate /dev/input/foo, rather than
> using its default driver mode (lirc kernel driver) pointed at
> /dev/lirc0.
>
>    
Ok now you lost me! And I apologize for my beginners ignorance.  What is 
a key map?  Is that the .lircrc file that I have to set up for mythTV?   
Over in the /usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput directory I found a file 
named lircd.conf.devinput, is this the file I should copy to 
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf?

I am using SuSE 11.2 which comes with a tool called YaST that has a 
utility to configure the TV card and part of that sets up the 
configuration for the lirc daemon. This configuration file is located at 
/etc/sysconfig/lirc  and I noted that YaST configured the 
LIRC_MODULE="ir_kbd_i2c" but it sets the LIRCD_DRIVER="/dev/lircd"   
Under /dev I see a link for lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd and  under 
/dev/input I see a number of devices (event0 event1 ... event7 ir (ir is 
a link to event7) mice mouse) and sub directories (by-id by-path) whose 
purpose I don't comprehend....  Should I point the LIRCD_DRIVER to one 
of these?

Thanks again for your patience and help...   Marc..


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