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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Alec,

Thursday, April 6, 2017, 10:49:12 AM, you wrote:



> On 06/04/17 06:59, Karl Newman wrote:

>> Pretty sure you have to use the remote that came with it. It's a matched
>> set, not a generic MCE-type receiver (and I'm not even sure if MCE is
>> generic).

> Sort of. The the MCE de-facto "standard" defines the protocol and some
> mappings, but a lot of hw out there emulates it more or less wrong. 
> Still, a MCE-compatible receiver should be possible to use with quite a
> few remotes (that is not to say that the kernel decoding can handle it).

> If the kernel creates a /dev/lirc0 device when plugging in the USB 
> dongle, you might have a chance doing the complete LIRC configuration,
> starting with mode2 and probably irrecord.

> My understanding is that the kernel decoding works great when it works,
> but is not that easy to customize when it doesn't. Could be wrong, for sure.


> Cheers!

> --alec

As again said before: Kernel key-mappings are in /etc/rc_maps.cfg and
/etc/rc_keymaps/. I there adapted my PVR500 to work with a different
remote. It however is not easy. To start with both must use the same
protocol.

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