[mythtv-users] Anybody had any luck with Gentoo/lirc-0.9.0/MCE remotes?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 01:09:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert Longbottom
<rongblor at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/2012 20:39, Robert Longbottom wrote:
>> On 13/01/2012 14:38, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>> I've had a bear of a time getting all of the buttons on my MCE remote
>>> working on my new Gentoo MythTV install (3.1.6 kernel, I believe) with
>>> lirc-0.9.0. All that is working are my arrow keys. Unfortunately,
>>> the older lirc (0.8.7?) won't compile to do some changes in the kernel
>>> (bomps out on a smp.h file), or I'd just downgrade and not use
>>> devinput.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> I had a similar pain of a time getting my MCE remote to work with
>> lirc-0.9.0 on kernel 2.6.38 but I did eventually manage to get it
>> working. It was some time ago and I can't remember exactly what
>> eventually fixed it, but one thing that I have in my local start scripts is
>>
>> echo "rc-6" > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
>>
>> I think this might have been the key.
>>
>> Robert.
>
> Ah, and I've just found my notes from when I build my frontend box.
>
> ##
> # Remote Control
> ##
> Lirc 0.9.0 + devinput, (set LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" in make.conf)
> need mceusb module from kernel
> need to set protocol = RC-6 in /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
> need to run lirc, pointing at the /dev/input/eventx
> need the lirc.devinput.conf
> need .lircrc for mythtv
>
> Robert.
>
>
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Thanks for the response.  What do you have as your protocols?  My file reads:
[rc-6] [lirc]

It's very odd - irw shows me nothing, but pressing the arrow buttons
gives me the keyboard arrow keys on my main console.  The other
buttons do nothing.  It's as if it thinks my remote is a keyboard,
which would be fine *if* it recognized button presses.  irrecord
doesn't detect anything, either.


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