[mythtv-users] using antec veris rm200 with kernel 2.6.37, lirc gives configuration problems on opensuse11.4 x86_64
Rob Verduijn
rob.verduijn at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 20:32:14 UTC 2011
Hi all,
I've managed to defeat the lirc beast on opensuse 11.4 x86_64.
Thanks to some direct and in-direct post from Jared Wilson. Most of
the things I did I found in posts from him.
I've been using linux for over a decade now but this is the first time
EVER that it took me over a week to fix a formerly perfectly
functioning item.
Damn...I say lirc can be nasty.
Using "ID 15c2:0038 SoundGraph Inc. GD01 MX VFD Display/IR Receiver"
with the "rm200" for the remote control of mythtv on opensuse 11.4
x86_64
ok here's the howto.
First I've blacklisted the lirc_dev driver, it's no longer needed so
get rid of it before it bites.
Add the following lines to the file /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf
install lirc_dev /bin/true
blacklist lirc_dev
Now configure lirc suse style:
In your /etc/sysconfig/lirc set the following vallues
LIRCD_DEV_PERMISSIONS="660"
LIRCD_DEV_OWNER="root:video"
LIRCD_DRIVER="devinput"
LIRCD_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-id/usb-15c2_0038-event-if00"
LIRC_MODULE=""
LIRCD_LISTENPORT=""
LIRCD_CONNECT=
If you do not have the exact same device as I do check the folder
/dev/input/by-id to see what the proper name is, it should end with
"if00".
Make sure your mythtv-frontend user is a member of group video
Now here's the catch that has bugged me most.
The file /usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
from the package lirc-remotes-0.8.7-9.1.x86_64
is BUGGY!!!!!
Get a less buggy one here.
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
save it as
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf
It's still buggy but adding the next few lines between the "begin
codes" and "end codes" section of the devinput remote should enable
all your buttons.
(the one at the top not the obsolete version below)
KEY_CONTEXT_MENU 0x1b6
KEY_DASHBOARD 204
KEY_NUMERIC_0 0x200
KEY_NUMERIC_1 0x201
KEY_NUMERIC_2 0x202
KEY_NUMERIC_3 0x203
KEY_NUMERIC_4 0x204
KEY_NUMERIC_5 0x205
KEY_NUMERIC_6 0x206
KEY_NUMERIC_7 0x207
KEY_NUMERIC_8 0x208
KEY_NUMERIC_9 0x209
KEY_NUMERIC_POUND 0x20b
KEY_NUMERIC_STAR 0x20a
I got these one from the old lircd.conf.devinput file, therefore you
should save these files just in case.
now make sure lirc starts at boot time
chkconfig lirc
edit your /home/<mythtvuser>/.mythtv/lircrc file to match the new
keynames. (mine is below)
Do not forget to adjust your frontend mythtv configuration setup
Somewhere in there under the general setup it points to the lirc device socket
it should be /var/run/lirc/lircd or /dev/lircd (which is a symbolic
link to the previous)
reboot your frontend to make sure it all works from power on.
IMPORTANT!!
Press the toggle button first on your remote ( to switch lirc to the
proper mode)
Now the buttons should start to function properly again, as you can
verify with the irw utility on the command line.
The toggle button is the little button above the pad and below the
stop button, it has a small mouse and keyboard on it and the text
mouse/keyboard.
Once again most thanx go out to jared wilson who has posted so much on
forums to help people, I've combined a lot of the info he posted to
get to a working solution.
Now I only need to figure out how to get lirc to start in the correct mode.
But I've had it with configuring lirc, weeding through flawed post,
debugging flawed configuration files from standard packages, the lirc
documentation and most of all with "Daddy can I watch 'dora the
explorer' now ?"
So I'll live with it for now.
p.s if you start googling for lirc problems make sure ya filter for
the last month or year, you really don't want to read posts for lirc
versions prior to kernel 2.6.36 it's very confusing
p.p.s. sorry about mailing you directly Jared, somehow your email got
swapped with the mythlist email and I just pressed reply
p.p.p.s. I've used the following lirc rpm's they either came from the
standard suse repo's or packman
"rpm -qa|grep -i lirc" gives :
lirc-0.8.7-9.1.x86_64
lirc-remotes-0.8.7-9.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.22-6.9.1.x86_64
liblirc_client0-0.8.7-9.1.x86_64
The kernel is the desktop kernel from opensuse.
"rpm -qa|grep -i kernel" gives :
kernel-desktop-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.x86_64
kernel-desktop-base-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.x86_64
Here's my lircrc file this is the way I like it, I copied most from
the guys mentioned at the top.
# LIRCRC
# Author(s): Mario Limonciello, Nick Fox, John Baab, Edited by Chris Murphy
# Created for use with Mythbuntu 10.10
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_EXIT
#App Exit
config = Escape
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
#begin
# remote = devinput
# prog = mythtv
# button = KEY_POWER
# config =
# repeat =
# delay =
#end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_RECORD
config = R
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_PLAY
config = P
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
#begin
# remote = devinput
# prog = mythtv
# button = KEY_EJECTCD
# config =
# repeat =
# delay =
#end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_REWIND
config = <
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_PAUSE
config = P
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_FASTFORWARD
config = >
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_PREVIOUS
config = Up
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_STOP
config = Escape
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NEXT
config = Down
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_BACKSPACE
config = Escape
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
#begin
# remote = devinput
# prog = mythtv
# button = ????
# Mouse / keyBoard
# config =
# repeat =
# delay =
#end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_CONTEXT_MENU
config = E
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_COMPOSE
config = M
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
#begin
# remote = devinput
# prog = mythtv
# button = BTN_LEFT
# L.Click
# config =
# repeat =
# delay =
#end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_ENTER
config = Return
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
#begin
# remote = devinput
# prog = mythtv
# button = BTN_RIGHT # R.Click
# config =
# repeat =
# delay =
#end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_UP
config = Up
repeat = 3
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_DOWN
config = Down
repeat = 3
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_LEFT
config = Left
repeat = 3
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_RIGHT
config = Right
repeat = 3
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_ESC
config = Escape
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_EJECTCLOSECD
config =
repeat =
delay =
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_DASHBOARD
# App Launcher
config = S
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_PROG1
# GO
config = Return
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS
# Task Switcher
config = I
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_MUTE
config = |
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_VOLUMEUP
config = ]
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
config = [
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_CHANNELUP
config = Up
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_CHANNELDOWN
config = Down
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_TIME
config = F8
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_1
config = 1
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_2
config = 2
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_3
config = 3
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_4
config = 4
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_5
config = 5
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_6
config = 6
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_7
config = 7
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_8
config = 8
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_9
config = 9
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_0
config = 0
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_POUND
config = D
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_STAR
config = ?
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_VIDEO
# red button
config = ALT+U
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_AUDIO
# green button
config = ALT+M
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_CAMERA
# blue button
config = ALT+I
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_TV
# yellow button
config = ALT+T
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_BOOKMARKS
config = C
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_MEDIA
# thumbnails
config = O
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_ZOOM
config = W
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_SCREEN
# full screen
config = F
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_DVD
# purple button
config = ALT+D
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_MENU
config = M
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_SUBTITLE
config = T
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
begin
remote = devinput
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_LANGUAGE
# audio
config = +
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end
2011/4/8 Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>:
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Comment are below :)
>>
>> 2011/4/8 Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>:
>>> On Apr 5, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>>>
> ...
>>>> I've been playing with this for some time now and got only partial
>>>> succes, on the remote some buttons work fine and some do not work at
>>>> all.
>>>
>>> What works and what doesn't? Try looking at the key data using either
>>> evtest or ir-keytable -t from v4l-utils.
>>
>> I cannot check right now, but I've already made some progress.
>>
>> In the suse repositories there is no v4l-utils package, and I've tried
>> to compile it from scratch but the compilation keeps failing.
>> I've also tried to check the buttons with the irw tool, but for some
>> reason mythtv reacts when I press a button but irw shows no output for
>> any key, not even for the ones that work.
>
> That suggests lircd isn't connecting to the correct input event
> device.
>
>
>> After 3 days searching the web I saw a mention about the "toggle
>> button" in some obscure forum I had a "DOH!!!!" moment.
>> Lirc starts the damn remote in the wrong mode.
>
> lirc has nothing to do with it. Its the kernel-level device driver.
>
>
>> I've had this setup in my old lircrc that ensured the right mode at
>> startup...completely forgot about it because I made that one like
>> almost 2 years ago.
>
> Um. There's no way to toggle the mode via an lircrc. Two years ago,
> I believe mouse mode support simply didn't exist.
>
>
>> Anyway mythtv is responding now and I can more or less use my remote.
>> I'm not satisfied by the keymapping though.
>>
>> I need to get either irw to work or the v4l-utils to compile so that I
>> can set the keys the way I like them.
>
> You shouldn't need to do anything but get lircd configured correctly
> and then you can just map things in ~/.lircrc.
>
>
>>>> I've been testing the remote with irw and I only get output whit some
>>>> of the keys of the remote.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have a working setup for opensuse 11.4 with this hardware
>>>> (15c2:0038 SoundGraph Inc.) ?
>>>> I'm especially interested in what is required in /etc/sysconfig/lirc
>>>> and /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.
>>>>
>>>> Currently I've used the
>>>> /usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput file from the
>>>> lirc-remote rpm package as /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.
>>>
>>> That's the right one.
>>
>> There are still some buttons missing in that config like the "GO" button.
>
> No, there isn't.
>
> Kernel side keymap:
>
> { 0x2ab195b7, KEY_MEDIA }, /* Go or MultiMon */
>
> The scancode for the Go button is mapped to the linux input layer
> key KEY_MEDIA (actually, in 2.6.37, I think its KEY_PROG1), and
> that's what lircd.conf.devinput matches against.
>
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
>
>
>
>
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