[mythtv-users] gyration remote - lirc keys

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Aug 3 03:14:56 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Michael Drons <mdrons at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just purchased a gyration 401 remote and I am having difficult getting the
> BACK key to work.
>
>
> I am using udev and create a symlink for lircd
>
> KERNEL=="event*",ATTRS{modalias}=="usb:v0C16p0008d0130dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02",SYMLINK+="gyration-remote"
>
>
>
> lirc starts like this ::  lircd -H devinput -d /dev/gyration-remote
>
> I have the lircd.conf file from the mythtv wiki.
>
> The one key that does not work is BACK.
> (from lircd.conf)
>  Back                     0x009E
>
> I have tried irw and irrecord to check the key code, but have not had success.
> IRW does not return any data when pointing it to /var/run/lirc/lircd and I get
> connection refused when pointing it to /dev/gyration-remote.
>
> IRRECORD gives the GAP error message.

Did you try (with root permissions) 'irrecord -H devinput -d
/dev/gyration-remote' ?

> My frontend is gentoo running lirc version "lircd 0.8.7pre1"
>
> Any help is appreciated.

Try evtest, it should report what input event code is getting through
from that key.

http://beagleboard.googlecode.com/files/evtest.c

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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