[mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)

Marc Mosthav marc at mosthav.com
Tue Feb 17 02:33:41 EST 2004 

I agree it should work, but clearly I have done something stupid with my
configs. Thans for you offer to llok through them. My ~mythtv/.lircrc and
~/.mythtv/lircrc are identical. I have attached ~mythtv/.lircrc and for good
luck also /etc/lircd.conf.

TIA,
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: <mythgnomer at rowelab.com>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 1:26 AM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)


> Marc, even without native lirc support, the irxevent alternative should
> work.. Can you attach your ~/mythtv/.lircrc ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marc Mosthav
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:43 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)
>
> I was following the discussion with great interest. My problem is that irw
> shows the button presses nicely:
>
> [mythtv at mythbox mythtv]$ irw
> 00000000000017fd 00 OFF hauppaugegrey
> 00000000000017e0 00 CH+ hauppaugegrey
> 00000000000017e0 01 CH+ hauppaugegrey
> 00000000000017e1 00 CH- hauppaugegrey
> 00000000000017e1 01 CH- hauppaugegrey
>
> I have copied configfiles/hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc to ~mythtv/.lircrc
and
> to ~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
>
> But neither the native LIRC that I told settings.pro to use, nor irxevent
> make it work on mythfrontend. The strace of irxevent looks like this:
>
> read(4, "00000000000017fd 00 OFF hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4,
> "00000000000017fd 01 OFF hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017fd
> 02 OFF hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e0 00 CH+
> hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e0 01 CH+ hauppaug"...,
100)
> = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e0 02 CH+ hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4,
> "00000000000017e0 03 CH+ hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1
> 00 CH- hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1 01 CH-
> hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1 02 CH- hauppaug"...,
100)
> = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1 03 CH- hauppaug"..., 100) = 38
>
> Any ideas what I am missing???
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mythgnomer at rowelab.com>
> To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:53 PM
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)
>
>
> > Okay.. If there's no /dev/lirc, that was probably the problem.. But
> > since you're at the point of reinstalling from source, simple
> > instructions
> follow
> > for that..
> >
> > $> wget
> > http://lirc.sourceforge.net/software/snapshots/lirc-0.7.0pre2.tar.bz2
> > $> tar -xjf lirc-0.7.0pre2.tar.bz2
> > $> cd lirc-0.7.0pre2
> > $> ./setup.sh
> >
> > Select 'Driver Configuration' .. Then 'TV Card'.. Then 'Hauppauge TV
> Card'.
> > Back at the main screen, choose 'Save Configuration and Run Configure'.
> > When that's done..
> >
> > $> make
> > $> su
> > $> make install
> >
> > Now, go check for /dev/lirc -- make install should have created an
> > entry
> > like:
> > crw-r--r--    1 root     root      61,   0 Jan 18 23:05 /dev/lirc
> >
> > If it didn't, you can create it manually 'mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0' but
> > like
> I
> > said, it _should_ be there at this point.
> >
> > Next step is to edit /etc/modules.conf and add 'alias char-major-61
> > lirc_i2c' and 'add below ivtv lirc_i2c'. This makes the lirc modules
> > load
> up
> > after the PVR-250 modules.
> >
> > You can either reboot to test, or just try 'modprobe lirc_i2c'. If
> > that doesn't give you any errors, then on to the next step.
> >
> > Before you start up lircd, you need to have a config file that matches
> your
> > remote. You can use irrecord to make one, go download one from
> > lirc.org,
> or
> > just use the one I've attached for the hauppauge grey (*grin*). Once
> that's
> > copied to the /etc directory, you can start lircd. You should see
> something
> > like the following in /var/log/lircd
> >
> > Feb 14 10:37:23 miniitx lircd 0.7.0pre2: lircd(hauppauge) ready
> >
> > Before moving on to the mythtv part, try running irw, and pointing the
> > remote toward the IR sensor and pushing buttons. You should see the
> > button names come up.
> >
> > If that looks okay, copy the hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc file from the
> > mythtv-0.14/configfiles directory into the .mythtv directory of the
> > user that you run mythfrontend as.. Ie,
> >
> > $> cp /root/mythtv-0.14/configfiles/hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc
> > /home/scott/.mythtv/lircrc
> >
> > You should be able to log in as that user (in my case 'scott') and
> > start
> up
> > mythfrontend and have the remote work.
> >
> > Hope this helps..
> > -Scott Rowe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Aleaxander
> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:46 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray
> > Remote)
> >
> > mythgnomer at rowelab.com wrote:
> >
> > > /var/log/lircd doesn't get created reliably unless you're using the
> > > init script.. (ie, If you're launching lircd manually, or from
> > > /etc/rc.local.)
> >
> > I'm too much of a newbie to understand how I'm launching lirc,
however...
> >
> > > Irw just not running usually means that lircd isn't running (ps -aux
> > > | grep lirc before running irw) or check /dev/lirc (should not be a
> > > link to /dev/ttySx). If lircd is running, check for /dev/lircd.
> >
> > I've confirmed lirc is running (results of ps -aux | grep lirc):
> > root 7217 0.0 0.1 4532 584 pts/2    S   22:31   0:00 grep lirc
> >
> > and there is is nothing under /dev/lirc.  There is however a lircd
> > socket
> in
> > /dev/.
> >
> > > Now, I've had some of the same problems after doing something like
> > > apt-get install mplayer - because that would also install liblirc
> > > 0.6.6.. So if none of the above works, uninstall lirc, updatedb,
> > > locate lirc and see what cruft is left behind.. If you have
> > > something like liblirc_client.so left over, whack it and install
again.
> >
> > I did a search for liblirc* and the only results were:
> > liblirc_client.so.0
> > liblirc_client.so.0.0.0
> >
> > I uninstalled lirc using synaptic, then I moved them out of /usr/lib/
> > (didn't seem like a good idea to delete them).
> >
> > Then I restarted, but I ran into this problem:
> > mythfrontend: error while loading shared libraries: liblirc_client.so.0:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > I originally installed lirc using apt-get, so I tried:
> > # apt get install lirc-kmdl-$MYKERNEL
> >
> > and received this error:
> > Couldn't find package lirc-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2163.nptl_32.rhfc1.at
> >
> > Trying to reinstall lirc via synaptic tells me that I have broken
> > packages (probably because they are a bit old at this point).  I think
> > I'm heading for a complete reinstall of Fedora Core 1 and a reinstall
> > per Jarod's
> guide,
> > but then the this machine (the frontend) will be running a different
> version
> > of MythTV than the backend, and I seem to recall that this can lead to
> > problems, so I went with your next suggestion:
> >
> > > I'd suggest installing from source, with the 0.7.0pre2 CVS snapshot
> > > (http://lirc.sourceforge.net/software/snapshots/lirc-0.7.0pre2.tar.b
> > > z2
> > > - it's pretty easy to install this one from source.)
> >
> > Downloaded this snapshot, extracted it, but haven't figured out how to
> > install yet (and in my newbie way, I managed to extract everything to
> > /home/mythtv/... quite a mess : ).  I'm getting pretty sleepy at this
> point
> > (going on day 7 of 12 hour days at work... alas, the life of a video
> > game developer), so I'll probably have to continue working on this
> > tomorrow or the next day.  Thanks again for your suggestions.  If I
> > figure out how to fix this, I'll of course let the list know in case
> > anyone else (read total
> > newbie) runs into the same problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Alex
> >
>
>
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