[mythtv-users] MCE remote doesn't work after hardware upgrade

[Alistair Grant]

Hi All,

As always, many thanks to all the mythtv devs and contributors for
such a great piece of software...

After purchasing a new myth box my Media Center Remote is no longer working.

The system contains a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD dual tuner and Microsoft
MCE remote, both of which worked on the previous hardware with
Mythbuntu 14.04.  Unfortunately the old system is busted, so I can't
go back and compare it to the old system (thus the reason for the new
hardware).

Running irw and pressing buttons on the remote results in the LED in
the receiver lighting up as expected, but nothing is printed from irw.

Running lircd in console mode shows irw connecting as a client when it
is run, but no other output.  I can't see anything that looks
obviously like an error below.

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much,
Alistair


$ sudo dmesg -T
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] usb 3-6: new full-speed USB device number 5
using xhci_hcd
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] usb 3-6: New USB device found,
idVendor=0471, idProduct=0815
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] usb 3-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] usb 3-6: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: Philips
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] usb 3-6: SerialNumber: PH00KPAV
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared
Remote Transceiver (0471:0815) as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-6/3-6:1.0/rc/rc1/input17
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] rc1: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote
Transceiver (0471:0815) as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-6/3-6:1.0/rc/rc1
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) as
/devices/virtual/input/input18
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec
(mceusb) registered at minor = 0
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] mceusb 3-6:1.0: Registered Philips eHome
Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version 1
[Thu Sep 18 08:23:19 2014] mceusb 3-6:1.0: 2 tx ports (0x0 cabled) and
2 rx sensors (0x0 active)


$ tail -n 16 /var/log/syslog  # Previous line was 10 minutes earlier
(before plugging in the receiver)
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.029483] usb 3-6: new full-speed
USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.047476] usb 3-6: New USB device
found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=0815
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.047485] usb 3-6: New USB device
strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.047490] usb 3-6: Product: eHome
Infrared Transceiver
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.047493] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: Philips
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.047497] usb 3-6: SerialNumber: PH00KPAV
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.048893] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.049048] input: Media Center Ed.
eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815) as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-6/3-6:1.0/rc/rc1/input17
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.049192] rc1: Media Center Ed.
eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815) as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-6/3-6:1.0/rc/rc1
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.049406] input: MCE IR
Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) as /devices/virtual/input/input18
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.049820] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver
ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.225427] mceusb 3-6:1.0: Registered
Philips eHome Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version
1
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth kernel: [  859.225436] mceusb 3-6:1.0: 2 tx ports
(0x0 cabled) and 2 rx sensors (0x0 active)
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 5:
"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-6"
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 5 was not an MTP device
Sep 18 08:23:19 myth lircd-0.9.0[3013]: lircd(default) ready, using
/run/lirc/lircd


$ ls -lh /run/lirc
total 4.0K
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 18 08:23 lircd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Sep 18 08:23 lircd.pid


$ ls -lhR /sys/class/rc
/sys/class/rc:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 18 08:23 rc1 ->
../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-6/3-6:1.0/rc/rc1


$ ls  /sys/class/rc/rc1
device  input17  lirc0  power  protocols  subsystem  uevent


$ cat /sys/class/rc/rc1/protocols
rc-5 nec rc-6 jvc sony sanyo mce_kbd [lirc]


$ ps -ef | grep lirc
root      3013     1  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lircd
--output=/run/lirc/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
alistair  3043  2555  0 08:29 pts/4    00:00:00 grep --color=auto lirc

$ ls -l /dev/lirc0
crw------- 1 root root 248, 0 Sep 18 08:32 /dev/lirc0

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