[mythtv-users] MCE remote not working

[Don Brett]

On 7/8/2017 8:40 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> 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.
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Thanks, I gave it a quick read; I'll give a try later this week and let 
you know how it goes.

Don


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