[mythtv-users] MCE remote after 0.21 -> 0.27 upgrade

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:52:47 PM Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> 
> Now I think I've just gotten spun-around by it all and there's a "Duh" moment awaiting me. What could I be missing? Do I really need to use lirc after all? Disable X (or something else like the kernel driver) from getting in the way? Something that XFCE is doing that my old FluxBox setup wasn't? 

Thanks to John and Stephen for replies which I haven't got to trying yet since my weekend sports recording is starting and I don't want to futz much with anything that might disturb that. 

>From reading around though, I've seen a couple notes about X (for XFCE at least) capturing MCE remote codes and the need to create an xorg.conf.d file like:

# Disable the MCE remote from acting like a keyboard.  (We use lirc instead.)
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier   "MCE USB Keyboard mimic blacklist"
    Driver       "mceusb"
    MatchProduct "Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)"
    Option       "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

(one example is https://marklodato.github.io/2013/10/24/how-to-use-lirc.html)


So, during the quiet Monday-Wednesday recording period I'll drop XFCE for FluxBox and get a bunch of code out of the way to try your suggestions. 


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