[mythtv-users] IguanaIR configuration

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Alec,

Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 1:42:44 PM, you wrote:

> On 02/09/15 13:06, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 01/09/15 06:10, Alec Leamas wrote:

>> Okay. This isn't entirely how I expected things to happen. Add in two
>> 16-month-old twin grand-daughters rampaging around the house and testing
>> stuff becomes... interesting.

> :)

>> However:
>>
>> I finally figured out how to use irrecord and ended up with some
>> surprising (to me) results. I assumed (!) that as the remote had a label
>> on the back saying it was "Vista MCE Remote" that it would at least be
>> RC-6. Nope. Nor RC-5 or anything else I tried.

> Hm... tried? Did you give irrecord the chance to determine this on iẗ́s
> own, or did you use a generic template?

> That said, it seems things are getting through. This is a Good Sign, indeed.

>>  All I got back was:

> [cut]

>> I tried irrecord in raw mode and it does, indeed, receive data and
>> create a .conf file. However, I'm at a loss to know what to do with this
>> and this wasn't my intent at all. I want to use standard codes if I can.


> Something is rotten here... You don't have any fluorescent light around,
> have you?

> However, a raw config file could be used exactly as a normal one. If you
> take your file with just a few buttons, copies it to 
> /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and then runs lircd + irw and checks those buttons?

>> If that means my remote and dongle (which came from Maplin in the UK) is
>> a lemon, so be it.


> Oops... out of Englisch, which certainly isn't my native language. Lemon?!


> Cheers!

> --alec
> _______________________________________________

Next to RC6 the kernel also knows a MCE keyboard/mouse protocol. If I
remember right that is a RC6 derivative.


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