[mythtv-users] Remote Control Setup

Chris LaForce laforcec at centurytel.net
Sun Sep 19 12:18:00 EDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 23:48, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 21:26, Chris LaForce wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >    I think my capture card/remote(Hauppauge WinTV Theatre) falls under
> > > > the second area from Jarod's site labeled "For those with bttv-based
> > > > cards:".  In this area he says nothing of an .lircrc file.  Do I need
> > > > one? I did follow the instructions for the lircd.conf file.  I chose
> > > > the /usr/share/doc/lirc-0.7.0/remotes/hauppauge/lircd.conf.hauppauge
> > > > file. Let me know what you think.
> > > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > I'm guessing maybe Hauppauge is standardizing on the grey remote, so I'd
> > > suggest giving the lircd.conf for the PVR-x50's remote a shot. Ya got
> > > nothing to lose. What lirc kernel module are you loading up?
> >
> > Hello,
> >   The kernel-module that I am loading up is
> > kernel-module-lirc-2.6.8-1.521.
> 
> Not the rpm, the actual kernel module, as defined in modprobe.conf. For 
> example, I'm loading lirc_mceusb for my MCE USB IR receiver and lirc_i2c for 
> my Hauppauge IR receiver.
> 
> > I don't see a directory 
> > /usr/share/doc/ivtv-* for PVR-x50's lircd.conf file as you stated
> > above.  Any more suggestions would be great.
> > Thanks for your help,
> 
> D'oh. Of course not, my mistake. That would require that you had installed 
> ivtv, which you haven't, since it isn't an ivtv card. Grab the ivtv tarball 
> and you'll be able to find it in there.

Thanks,
   The module is actually lirc_gpio.  I will give the ivtv file a try.
Thanks,

Chris.



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