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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi mythtv,

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 7:36:51 PM, you 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?

If it like Peter says should work out of the box, there must be a
device node in /dev/input. One of the eventx nodes. To check them use:
udevadm info --attribute-walk --name=/dev/input/eventx, where x is one
of the present numbers. If there is no eventx node for the device, you
are missing the kernel driver. In that case check your boot log for
the moment the device is detected and whether there is something about
missing drivers or load failures.

Key-mappings are in /etc/rc_maps.cfg and /etc/rc_keymaps/


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