[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

[Kirk Bocek]

On 8/30/2015 4:59 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 28 August 2015 at 22:32, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>
>> I received my receiver and got it plugged into my new ECS Liva running
>> Fedora 21. It seems to get recogized:
>>
>> [178998.885410] usb 1-1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
>> [178999.061504] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=20cc
>> [178999.061517] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>> SerialNumber=0
>> [178999.061526] usb 1-1: Product: MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus
>> [178999.061533] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: PHILIPS
>> [178999.064751] usb 1-1: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep
>> desc says 80 microframes
>> [178999.085843] input: PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus as
>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/0003:0471:20CC.0003/input/input9
> Just wondering if this is the problem:
>
>> [178999.137558] hid-generic 0003:0471:20CC.0003: input,hiddev0,hidraw2: USB
>> HID v1.00 Keyboard [PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus] on
>> usb-0000:00:14.0-1/input0
> It's getting detected as a USB keyboard, not as an IR receiver?
>
> What does the following show?
>
> $ ls -l /sys/class/rc/
>
> Do you see an rc node for the receiver?
>

No, no such directory.

However:

$ir-keytable 
--device=/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event-ir -r

scancode 0x700e1 = KEY_LEFTSHIFT (0x2a)
scancode 0x700e2 = KEY_LEFTALT (0x38)
scancode 0x700e3 = KEY_LEFTMETA (0x7d)
scancode 0x700e4 = KEY_RIGHTCTRL (0x61)
scancode 0x700e5 = KEY_RIGHTSHIFT (0x36)
scancode 0x700e6 = KEY_RIGHTALT (0x64)
scancode 0x700e7 = KEY_RIGHTMETA (0x7e)
scancode 0x70000 = KEY_RESERVED (0x00)
scancode 0x70001 = KEY_RESERVED (0x00)
scancode 0x70002 = KEY_RESERVED (0x00)
scancode 0x70003 = KEY_RESERVED (0x00)
scancode 0x70004 = KEY_A (0x1e)
scancode 0x70005 = KEY_B (0x30)
scancode 0x70006 = KEY_C (0x2e)
  ...

So we do have something here. I see note about installing the output of 
-r elsewhere so it can be used.