[mythtv-users] mceusb as an input device

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Harry Orenstein wrote:

> Hoping to get Jarod's attention to continue my recent questions about IR 
> remotes.

Attention got.


> My latest adventure was to pick up an HVR-950Q with a Tivo MCE USB remote 
> (also known as Nero LiquidTV).  Everything seems to be recognized just fine, 
> including the IR transceiver.  The problem is that no keycodes are being 
> generated.  I've run ir-keytable to test it and there are no events.

So does that thing actually come with a TiVo remote? The in-kernel driver
is only set up to handle the MCE remotes, its likely the TiVo remote uses
different signaling. Judging from TiVo lircd.conf's out there, that's the
case. Not sure exactly what it uses, and/or if the protocol is known by
the in-kernel decoders. Worst-case, you should be able to use it the same
old /dev/lirc0 way though.


> I cannot seem to find any info about using an MCE USB transceiver as an input 
> device.  All references I can find in Google involve implementing using LIRC.  
> The input device gets created and /sys/class/rc/rc0 looks like I think it 
> should.  Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

Nope, I think its just a case of this being the one and only mceusb device
I know of that comes with a non-RC6 MCE remote.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com