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

[Kirk Bocek]

On 8/14/2015 11:30 AM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> 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
>
>

And then, as I recall, you get the hardware IDs from lsusb:

# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0471:0815 Philips (or NXP) eHome Infrared Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub