[mythtv-users] Ortek VRC-1100 IR receiver on Gentoo

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:36 AM, mythtv <mythtv at mdabbs.org> wrote:

> On 04/05/2017 12:08 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 04/05/2017 12:45 PM, mythtv wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone assist me with getting the Ortek VRC-1100 working on Gentoo.
>>> Everything I read seems to be Ubuntu related with hardware.conf files and
>>> what not.  Gentoo doesn't have that. I've seen some info on using devinput
>>> but I don't think I have my kernel, my udev rules, and other stuff
>>> configured correctly.  irw does nothing and mode2 says it doesn't work with
>>> this hardware yet.  Please help.  Thanks!
>>>
>>
>> I think you are over-complicating matters. It emulates a keyboard, so
>> just plug it in and it works. I have 5 of these on Ubuntu and raspbian
>> systems. They are detected as a keyboard by the system. If that is not
>> happening then check logs to see what the error is. If you run lsusb you
>> should see this
>>
>> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05a4:9881 Ortek Technology, Inc. IR receiver
>> [VRC-1100 Vista MCE Remote Control]
>>
>> There are instructions in the wiki for making it work with lirc, but that
>> seems rather a waste of time. It works fine without.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> If you're not using it with lirc, how do you map all of the keys? Is that
> explained in the inputlircd portion of the wiki page? And do you have to
> use the remote that came with it, or can you use other generic IR remotes
> like a Hauppauge or other MCE remote?
>

I'm using one of these on Gentoo without lirc. Here's my section of the
Wiki: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adesso_ARC-1100#Alternate_Configuration
You map the keys using the key editor in MythFrontend setup.

Karl
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