[mythtv-users] Trying To Get Two IR Receivers Working

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Karl,

Thursday, October 15, 2015, 7:50:42 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> The thing here is that the kernel drivers are completely different. The
>> working one has a kernel driver based on the rc framework. It exposes a
>> /sys/class/rc device (here /sys/class/rc/rc0). ir-keytable requires such a
>> device to work.
>>
>> I don't believe that's true. My remote (Ortek VRC-1100) shows up as two
> hid-generic devices, and I can manipulate the key mapping with ir-keytable.
> I'm not using lirc on that computer because I don't need that flexibility.
> Here's the relevant lines from my dmesg:
> [    1.921488] input: HID 05a4:9881 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/0003:05A4:9881.0001/input/input4
> [    1.925719] hid-generic 0003:05A4:9881.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID
> v1.10 Keyboard [HID 05a4:9881] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input0
> [    1.961175] input: HID 05a4:9881 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.1/0003:05A4:9881.0002/input/input5
> [    1.965514] hid-generic 0003:05A4:9881.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID
> v1.10 Mouse [HID 05a4:9881] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input1

> It seems like there's just something fundamentally broken with Kirk's setup.

> Karl

Another thought. With my PVR350 I had to file out some extra space in
the slot of the computercase. The connector is so close to the edge
that else it doesn't go in completely and won't work. That also took
me some time to discover.


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