[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

[John Adams]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:32:03 +0200
Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31/08/15 17:10, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 
> >
> > No /sys/class/rc directory. Do you have one in your systems? Is
> > there anyway to force it in Fedora?
> 
> This nothing about Fedora, it's the kernel. The /sys/class/rc
> directory is created when the kernel identifies a new device as an
> IR  (or RF) remote. The basic problem here is that this remote is
> identified as a keyboard, and thus is somewhere else in the sys/class
> tree (Where? Dunno).
> 
> If you cannot configure the kernel to decode this remote, you need to 
> let lirc do it. It's then no point using the devinput driver, since
> it relies on the broken kernel decoding. Instead you will need to use
> the 'default' driver on /dev/lirc0.  For this to work, you need to
> make the kernel accept your device as an IR remote and not a
> keyboard. I described some possible ways to do this in [1]; nothing
> I've done personally, though.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --alec

I have four of these Iguana devices.  I run them all with user space
drivers.  My kernels are configured without any rc support.  

The original poster needs to build and run the iguana stuff from the
iguanaIR-1.0.1 package and use  the --driver=libusb option when
building igdaemon.

-- 
John Adams (johna at onevista.com)