[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers For LIRC

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On 10/7/2015 11:58 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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>> I thought I'd start a new thread since our other one got mixed in with
>> some ECS Liva stuff.
>>
>> I want to know if anyone knows of any currently available USB IR
>> receivers that just work with LIRC and a standard Linux distro. That means
>> on being plugged in they load a kernel driver and create a /dev/lirc
>> interface.
>>
>> Tom Bongiorno has pointed towards http://flirc.tv/. But that sounds like
>> a keyboard interface and lots of programming and work-arounds and grief.
>>
>> I was also directed to:
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>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-RC2604315-01BG-Media-Center-Remote-Control-USB-IR-Receiver-OVU710018-01-/251421736049?
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>> (Sorry forgot who) But it turns out that user was using it with Kodi or
>> something similar and not LIRC. I just never got it to work despite
>> patching the mceusb.ko source and lots of work removing the default
>> keyboard interface.
>>
>> There must be something out there. I took my *ancient* Microsoft branded
>> IR receiver, plugged it into my brand new ECS Liva running Fedora 21 and
>> LIRC 0.9.1a and it *Just Worked*.
>>
>> There must be something else out there!
>>
>>
> I posted this to lirc-list too. If I get any answers there I will share
> them.
>
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Is your setup a standalone frontend configuration? Do you run multiple
applications? Do you use special button modes like long button presses? Do
you sleep you system from the remote?
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