[mythtv-users] LIRC not detecting certain keypresses with MCE remotes (modifiers?)

[Alec Leamas]

On 23/07/15 11:15, Tim Draper wrote:

> looks like i found the issue but still struggling to get setup..
> the problem is that the NUC has 2 IR receivers (/dev/input/event4 (default) and .../event5 (MCE receiver)). LIRC/irw is currently using event4 and ignoring the event5 signals.
>
> i think my problem now is I can't find where LIRC has event4 input defined. it's obviously set somewhere as manually defining event5 works ('lircd -d /dev/input/event5', then use irw to monitor). my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf is here: http://pastebin.com/dgaprdX5
> Looks like i need to configure /dev/lirc0, but how? I am on the belief that *something* writes to /dev/lirc0, but been unable to find what to reconfigure it.
>
> thanks for any help..

Your hardware.conf:

> REMOTE="Linux input layer (/dev/input/eventX)"
> REMOTE_MODULES=""
> REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
> REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
> REMOTE_SOCKET=""
> REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"
> REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""


doesn't really make any sense. Using the devinput driver implies that 
that the input device should be the event device. The /dev/lirc0 device 
id not used at all by the devinput driver.

In fact, you might need to disable the /dev/lirc0 device. There might 
also be issues with the /dev/input/event4 device after reboot; the 
device numbering is not defined, so it might pop as another event 
device. See http://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html. This is 
for recent lirc (ubuntu's 0.9.0 is really old) but should apply for 
these issues.

HTH.

Cheers!

--alec