[mythtv-users] Fwd: More Using LIRC on CentOS 6.6

[Alec Leamas]

On 05/09/15 15:23, rod wrote:
>
> I have an issue that shares similarities with
>
> http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-June/379282.html
>
>
> I recently upgraded a Fedora12 machine to a CentOS 6.6 along with it I
> installed an upgrade to lirc 0.9.0.  with following hardware:
>
> mceusb IR Transever
>
>  >ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc1/ (/dev/input/event13) with:
> Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
> Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
> Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
> Extra capabilities: <access denied>
>
>
>  >grep '^N:'/proc/bus/input/devices
> N: Name="Power Button"
> N: Name="Power Button"
> N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
> N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
> N: Name="Video Bus"
> N: Name="Logitech USB-PS/2 Mouse"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Phantom"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia Line Out Side"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia Line Out CLFE"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia Line Out Surround"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia Line Out Front"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia Line"
> N: Name="HDA NVidia Rear Mic"
> N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815)"
>
>
>
> It receives IR signals from a PanasonicTV remote (black) and a M$ Media
> Center
> Remove (silver)
>
> /etc/lircd.conf    had contained a "remote code" sections for each of
> the two
> remotes with, in the case of the black remote, buttons that I had named
> myself.  The old Fedora12 setup worked perfectly.
>
> Now the new CentOS machine has me quite confused.
>
> mode2   gives good output for both remotes.
> irw     only produces information for silver remote
> I have installed  ir-keytable
>
> I have done many attempts at having this new CentOS machine read my black
> remote via
> irrecord
> This will make it thru the two lines of dots then when it comes time to name
> a button it will fail along the lines of  "Something must be wrong try raw"
> mode.  irrecord -f (raw mode) will allow me to define keys and  this did
> seem
> to work. I could get a handful of named buttons working on the black remote.
> This was quite laborius.  Most of the time the silver (mce) remote would
> respond when
> checked with irw.  But I would like to reuse a slightly modified
> /etc/lirc/linrcd.conf    i
> that I preveously had working with Fedora.
>
>
>
> I went to another machine with LinuxMint17 (Mint). I installed lirc on this
> machine and had similar experience as with the CentOS machine until I
> added a
> file named:
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-mce-keyboard-disable.conf
>
> containing:
> #disable the MCE remote from acting like a keyboard.  (We use lirc instead.)
> Section "InputClass"
>      Identifier   "MCE USB Keyboard mimic blacklist"
>      Driver       "mceusb"
>      MatchProduct "Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver
> (0471:0815)"
>      Option       "Ignore" "on"
> EndSection


Check this recent thread [1]. Although Kirk has other problems, we were 
able to resolve this particular in the context of this thread.

Cheers!

--alec


[1] 
http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-September/381201.html