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On Sep 2, 2015 7:45 AM, "Alec Leamas" <<a href="mailto:leamas.alec@gmail.com">leamas.alec@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 02/09/15 13:06, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>
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>> On 01/09/15 06:10, Alec Leamas wrote:<br>
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>> Okay. This isn't entirely how I expected things to happen. Add in two<br>
>> 16-month-old twin grand-daughters rampaging around the house and testing<br>
>> stuff becomes... interesting.<br>
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>> However:<br>
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>> I finally figured out how to use irrecord and ended up with some<br>
>> surprising (to me) results. I assumed (!) that as the remote had a label<br>
>> on the back saying it was "Vista MCE Remote" that it would at least be<br>
>> RC-6. Nope. Nor RC-5 or anything else I tried.<br>
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> Hm... tried? Did you give irrecord the chance to determine this on iẗ́s own, or did you use a generic template?<br>
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> That said, it seems things are getting through. This is a Good Sign, indeed.<br>
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>> All I got back was:<br>
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> [cut]<br>
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>> I tried irrecord in raw mode and it does, indeed, receive data and<br>
>> create a .conf file. However, I'm at a loss to know what to do with this<br>
>> and this wasn't my intent at all. I want to use standard codes if I can.<br>
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> Something is rotten here... You don't have any fluorescent light around, have you?<br>
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> However, a raw config file could be used exactly as a normal one. If you take your file with just a few buttons, copies it to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and then runs lircd + irw and checks those buttons?<br>
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>> If that means my remote and dongle (which came from Maplin in the UK) is<br>
>> a lemon, so be it.<br>
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> Oops... out of Englisch, which certainly isn't my native language. Lemon?!<br>
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> Cheers!<br>
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> --alec<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Lemon, as in sour or hard to swallow, taken as a bad one of mass production.<br>
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