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

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> 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.

I tried that; lirc complained that the file was outdated and gave a URL for
a new version, but was actually exactly the same!

Best Regards,
Alex