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

[Jarod Wilson]

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...

> Thanks Jerod for replying! Ouch! but yeah I am seeing lots of chatter
> elsewhere in my internet searches that seem to imply something is wrong with
> lirc_i2c but I cannot understand it nor discern any sort of fixes that apply
> to me...  Anywise I did a dmesg | grep i2c and will attach the results
> below...

...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.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com