<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com" target="_blank">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><br></div><div>[ snip lots of good advice ] </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="im">--<br>
Nick Morrott<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nick, thank you for taking the time to write all that, I've been down that route already . Here's a quick summary of things I've tried earlier in this saga.</div><div><br></div><div>- totally clean disk install of mythbuntu 14.04.2 on a LIVA ECS, configured to use Win MCE in the mythbuntu setup results in non-working remote</div><div>- futzing around with lirc for a while getting nothing out of irw and googling led me to ir-keytable</div><div>- following a few different how-tos for ir-keytable proved fruitless</div><div>- my final conclusion is that there is a driver issue in this distro that prevents the remote from working under the conditions of a version 1 emulation hardware implementation of the mce receiver, perhaps exacerbated by USB 3.0 (but maybe not)</div><div><br></div><div>ir-keytable output:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event10) with:</div><div> Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce</div><div> Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other</div><div> Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other</div><div> Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared</div><div> bus: 3, vendor/product: 1784:0008, version: 0x0101</div><div> Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms</div></div><div><br></div><div>The system recognizes the receiver, the receiver works with my old computer, and it works if I install Win 10 on the LIVA, so definitely not an insurmountable h/w issue</div><div><br></div><div>If I run ir-keytable -t, and then repeatedly hit the down arrow on the remote, this is the output:</div><div><br></div><div><div>1435454572.411703: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x4007</div><div>1435454572.411703: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454573.148160: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x200</div><div>1435454573.148160: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454573.244100: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x100</div><div>1435454573.244100: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454573.788398: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x100</div><div>1435454573.788398: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454574.492757: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x100</div><div>1435454574.492757: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454574.716826: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x400782</div><div>1435454574.716826: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454575.517257: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x400</div><div>1435454575.517257: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454576.573777: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1001e</div><div>1435454576.573777: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div><div>1435454576.701858: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x100</div><div>1435454576.701858: event type EV_SYN(0x00).</div></div><div><br></div><div>So even before the scancodes get to the key map, they are totally fubar. Note that I've tried enabling solely the RC6 protocol with identical results.</div><div><br></div><div>At this point I've exhausted everything I can think of - perhaps time to buy a newer IR receiver, much as it annoys me to have to do so.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jerry</div></div></div></div>