[mythtv-users] MCE remote not working

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:43:22 -0400, you wrote:

>I installed 16.04 several weeks ago and thought the remote was working.  
>Somewhere along the line, it stopped (solved other issues and did 
>updates; maybe something happened).  Trying ir-keytable, it finds  the 
>remote, but the key stroke test doesn't do anything....tried all the 
>event inputs (1-16), but nothing.  Any ideas?
>
>Don

When you thought that the remote was working, I am guessing that you
only tried the arrow keys, and that previously were using a much older
version of Mythbuntu, from before the IR drivers moved into the
kernel.  A lot of people have been caught by this - after the drivers
moved to the kernel, the arrow keys still work, but nothing much else
does, until you completely revamp your IR setup to use the in-kernel
drivers (devinput).  Some people have disabled lirc and just heavily
modified the ir-keytable mapping tables.  That works, but only if you
are trying to run just one program (eg mythfrontend) and can change
the mappings to what that program needs.  I also use other software
with lirc (eg mplayer), so I went through the whole messy business of
reconfiguring things so that lirc worked properly.  I put my setup on
my web server when I had it working, so you can download it to see if
it will help you:

http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mythbuntu-devinput-lirc.bz2

It has configurations for my MCE remote and also for my Hauppauge
remotes that came with my HVR-900r2 and Nova TD-500 tuners.