[mythtv-users] IguanaIR configuration

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sep 2, 2015 7:45 AM, "Alec Leamas" <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/09/15 13:06, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>
>> On 01/09/15 06:10, Alec Leamas wrote:
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>
>> 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
>
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Lemon, as in sour or hard to swallow, taken as a bad one of mass production.
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