[mythtv-users] ir-keytable not receiving on Debian 9

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:02:56 -0700, you wrote:

>I upgraded my ECS Liva from Debian 8 to Debian 9. Everything appears to 
>be OK, except I cannot receive IR signals anymore. However, everything 
>seems to be OK.
>
># ir-keytable
>Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event5) with:
>         Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
>         Supported protocols: unknown other lirc rc-5 rc-5-sz jvc sony 
>nec sanyo mce_kbd rc-6 sharp xmp
>         Enabled protocols: lirc rc-5 jvc sony nec rc-6
>         Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared
>         bus: 3, vendor/product: 1934:5168, version: 0x0001
>         Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms
>
>In addition, Xorg appears to see it as well:
>
>[   416.138] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Media Center Ed. 
>eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168) (/dev/input/event5)
>[   416.139] (**) Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver 
>(1934:5168): Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
>[   416.139] (**) Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver 
>(1934:5168): Applying InputClass "libinput keyboard catchall"
>[   416.139] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Media Center Ed. 
>eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)'
>[   416.139] (**) Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver 
>(1934:5168): always reports core events
>[   416.139] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
>[   416.139] (**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
>[   416.140] (II) input device 'Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote 
>Transceiver (1934:5168)', /dev/input/event5 is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
>[   416.140] (II) input device 'Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote 
>Transceiver (1934:5168)', /dev/input/event5 is a keyboard
>[   416.156] (**) Option "config_info" 
>"udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/rc/rc0/input3/event5"
>[   416.185] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Media Center Ed. 
>eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)" (type: KEYBOARD, id 10)
>
>However, when I capture signals I don't get anything:
>
># ir-keytable -c -p NEC,RC-5,RC-6,JVC,SONY -t
>Old keytable cleared
>Protocols changed to rc-5 jvc sony nec rc-6
>Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
>
>
>This was working 2 days ago with Debian 8/Jessie. What am I missing?

I am not really familiar with Debian - is Jessie old enough to not be
using the in-kernel drivers for IR?  If so, then you will need to do
the changes to use the devinput in-kernel driver.