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

[Alistair Grant]

Hi Stephen,

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:01:57 +1000, you wrote:
> ...
>>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).
>>
>
> Since you have multiple remote controls, what is creating your
> /dev/lirc0?  I have a very similar setup to yours (MCE remote,
> Hauppauge Nova TC-500) but also two other tuners with remotes. Without
> the proper udev rules, the remotes would switch around on boot.  This
> is what I have in my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:
> ...
>
> I also have an as yet undiagnosed problem since I upgraded from 12.04
> to 14.04.1 where the /etc/init.d/lirc script is unable to use the echo
> command to set the protocols in /sys/class/rc/*.  You do not appear to
> have that problem as your "cat /sys/class/rc/rc1/protocols" output is
> showing the lirc protocol selected correctly.  I had to add this:
>
>   ir-keytable -s rc0 -p LIRC &
>
> to /etc/rc.local as a workaround for my problem.

During testing I had the Hauppauge tuner unplugged to make sure that
there weren't any conflicts or misleading messages.

If I have the tuner plugged in I also get an echo I/O error while
starting and stopping the lirc service.  The problem is that the lirc
script tries to enable the lirc protocol for every remote on the
system.  The errors are being generated when attempting to modify the
remote receiver in the tuner.  On my system it seems safe to ignore
them.

Thanks,
Alistair