[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 20:22:47 UTC 2015


On 31/08/15 21:58, Kirk Bocek wrote:

>
> [    2.803036] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=20cc
> [    2.803044] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=0
> [    2.803048] usb 1-2: Product: MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus
> [    2.803051] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: PHILIPS
> [    2.952817] usb 1-2: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes,
> ep desc says 80 microframes
> [    2.956975] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no post:
> no)
> [    2.957886] acpi device:09: registered as cooling_device2
> [    2.958053] input: Video Bus as
> /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input3
> [    2.970165] input: PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/0003:0471:20CC.0001/input/input4
>
> [    2.972169] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20150327 for 0000:00:02.0 on
> minor 0
> [    2.977346] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
> [    3.024090] hid-generic 0003:0471:20CC.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw0:
> USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus] on
> usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input0
>
> Looks like we have a video thing mixed in here. But we keep talking
> about this only getting recognized as a keyboard: that looks like
> input0. The by-id and by-path links are to input4 here.

Yes, and if you don't want to use this like a keyboard you need to 
somehow unbind the hid-generic driver (i. e., hidusb) before you can 
load mceusb instead. I've posted two messages how this could be done, 
just a reminder [1]


Cheers!

--alec

[1]  http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-August/380885.html




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