[mythtv-users] Looking for clarity on MythTV, to LIRC, or not to LIRC, ir-keytable, and key mappings

Dave Brown davebrown099 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 10:36:51 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 4/14/2012 9:36 AM, Dave Brown wrote:
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>>
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>>    What I do in MiniMyth is use udev to create device symbolic links
>>    from the hardware's characteristics (e.g., vendor id, product id,
>>    serial number). Once this is done, device can be referred to by the
>>    symbolic link, which does not change as it is constructed from the
>>    hardware's characteristics. For example, newer versions of udev
>>    contain a rules script (60-persistent-input.rules) that does this
>>    for input devices.
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>> Hi Paul
>>
>> Ive tried this using udev and have it matched to the remote.   I had set
>> it to REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/**remote" in hardware.conf. However, I
>> dont get any output from the remote using irw.
>>
>> What im having after each boot is change the remote device to /dev/lirc0
>> or /dev/lirc1 depending on where the remote is placed agains
>> either /sys/class/rc/rc0/ or /sys/class/rc/rc1/
>>
>> I cant find anywhere to point /sys/class/rc/rc0/ to /dev/input/remote
>>
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> The /dev/input devices created by udev are input devices not lirc devices.
> What I did for MiniMyth was to create my own udev script that created
> persistent device symbolic links for lirc devices.
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Cheers Paul, ive had a read up on udev and ive got this working now
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