[mythtv-users] Fedora 14 & Hauppauge (Grey) & lirc devinput with Nova-T

[Jarod Wilson]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Alex Butcher wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Nigel Jewell wrote:
> 
>> I've just moved my Myth installation from CentOS 5 i386, to CentOS 5 x86_64 
>> and eventually settled on Fedora 14 (x86_64).
>> 
>> In CentOS 5 my Hauppauge remote (A415-HPG) connected to a Nova-T worked fine 
>> with lirc using devinput in both architectures using the same lircd.conf.
>> 
>> Now I've moved to Fedora 14 I cannot get it to work.  If I monitor it using 
>> "mode2" I can see the events arriving, but irw shows no output and creating a 
>> file using irrecord is proving to be impossible.  Each time that I run it I 
>> eventually see the message:
>> 
>> ..............................................................
>> irrecord: could not find gap.
>> irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
>> 
>> This normally occurs towards the end of the first recording stage.
> 
> I seem to recall I had the same problem moving my lircd.conf from Fedora 8
> to Fedora 14.
> 
>> Has anyone managed to get this remote working with Fedora 14?
> 
> Yup, try:
> 
> irrecord -H devinput -d /dev/input/by-path/pci-[...]-event-ir $HOME/lircd.conf
> 
> to generate a new lircd.conf in $HOME

Running irrecord for a devinput device is a complete waste of time. Just use
the lircd.conf.devinput file provided by the lirc project.


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Jarod Wilson
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