[mythtv-users] Getting all the buttons on my remote control to work - part 1

[Alec Leamas]

The ArchLinux page [1] is also good, has some neat tricks. But my own
patch for the lirc documentation [2] is of course the best :)
(feedback welcome!)

--alec

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LIRC
[2] http://leamas.fedorapeople.org/lirc/html/configuration-guide.html


On 2/26/14, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:35:22 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-session-fallback. Using Synaptic I
>>installed mythtv packages from ppa:mythbuntu/0.27.
>>MythTV works correctly.
>>
>>I have a Rosewill IR remote control, model RHRC-11001. It is a Windows
>>Media compatible remote.
>>
>>Before turning on remote control support in Mythbuntu Control Center I
>>tried the remote and found that a few buttons work. I can change the
>>volume, turn mute on and off, and I can toggle between play and pause
>>with the play button. The rest of the buttons do nothing -- except the
>>quarter moon button in the upper right corner, which puts the system in
>>some version of sleep.
>>
>>I turned on remote control support and chose "Windows Media
>>Transcievers/Remotes (all)" from the list. I checked both "Generate
>>dynamic button mappings" and "Generate frontend restart mapping (Power
>>followed by clear)". After clicking on Apply, those two check boxes
>>reverted to unchecked.
>>
>>Now I can press the volume up and down buttons and can see a popup
>>window showing the volume being increased or decreased, but the actual
>>volume doesn't change. I can press the mute button and see "Mute On" or
>>"Mute Off", but the sound does not mute.
>>
>>While I haven't experimented with every keyboard command, most of the
>>ones I have used work as expected. The exceptions are the buttons
>>related to sound. As with the remote control sound buttons, the keyboard
>>volume up/down and mute buttons claim to be doing something via the
>>popup windows, but have no actual effect on the sound.
>>
>>Where do I look to start solving this problem?
>>
>>Thanks.
>
> This is the best page I have come across that explains how IR remotes
> now work and how to set them up and debug them:
>
>  http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/Architecture_and_Customization
>
> It is written for LinHes, so some of the files may be in slightly
> different places in Mythbuntu, but it is a very close match to how it
> is in Ubuntu and it allowed me to get all my remotes working 100%.
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