[mythtv-users] Need help with mce usb remote control

[Brent Bolin]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> replaced by a new mceusb driver... :)
> >
> > Is there any further information on this?  Is it a drop in replacement
> > or a more substantial change breaking setups that have worked for
> > years?
>
> Both. Its a new driver written for the new ir-core infrastructure
> we've been working on upstream. Default out of the box experience is
> that the bundled RC6 remotes Just Work via the linux input layer --
> i.e., they work without any lirc configuration work as well as without
> even having lirc installed (we use an in-kernel RC6 IR decoder, then
> pass along decoded key values via the input layer).
>
> However, I've also written an ir-core to lirc_dev bridge driver that
> allows you to use the device with lirc like you always have. To do
> that, you'd probably want to disable the in-kernel decoding though --
> which is as simple as echoing a value into /sys/class/rc/rcX/protocols
> (there's some flux as to whether there will be protocol-specific
> nodes, or a single node for all protocols, which you echo the protocol
> name into...). I've got four different mceusb transceivers and several
> remotes that all work perfectly with both in-kernel decoding and lirc
> bridge mode (including transmit support). The fun can all be seen
> here:
>
> http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-ir-wip.git/?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/patches
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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Are you saying when you have a device like this shown in
/var/log/messages hid device


Jun 15 11:46:12 brent kernel: [   12.184174] generic-usb
0003:147A:E03C.0002: timeout initializing reports
Jun 15 11:46:12 brent kernel: [   12.184595] generic-usb
0003:147A:E03C.0002: hiddev96,hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Device [Formosa21
eHome Infrared Transceiver] on usb-0000:00:04.0-5/input1

That you don't need to be using lircd?