[mythtv-users] Need help to setup iMON remote and VFD on Fedora 14

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Andrew Junev wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>  I'm trying to help my friend to set up a new machine for use as
>  HTPC. He has an iMON remote (with VFD) and he was happily using it
>  under Windows previously.
> 
>  Now we have the latest Fedora running and we installed LIRC from
>  rpmfusion repo. The issue is that I can't get it to work with iMON.
>  I tried to follow Imon page on MythTV Wiki, but still can't get LIRC
>  to work.
> 
>  Loading lirc_imon kernel module doesn't seem to have any effect. I
>  have some "imon" module loaded as well - don't know where it comes
>  from though...
> 
> 
>  Here's my setup:
> 
>  # lsusb
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 15c2:0038 SoundGraph Inc. GD01 MX VFD Display/IR Receiver
>  # uname -a
> Linux fedora.host 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 15:34:36 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> I tried many things and now the situation is that lirc starts on the
> machine but it doesn't process any keypress (irw shows nothing and
> mode2 can't find /dev/lirc).
> 
> Nov 11 15:04:13 fedora lircd-0.8.7[2376]: caught signal
> Nov 11 15:04:13 fedora lircd-0.8.7[2417]: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
> 
> I can't also find any /dev/lirc* devices on the system. Some buttons
> on the remote do work, but I have a feeling it's not LIRC making it
> work...
> 
> Can someone please help me with a proper configuration?

http://wilsonet.com/?p=45

Its a pure input layer device. Can be used with lircd's devinput driver, attaching to the /dev/input/eventX node created by the imon driver (or, preferably, to /dev/input/by-id/<unique ID for your device>, as the X in eventX *can* change).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com