[mythtv-users] 2 Cards one remote - but wrong one!

[Brad Fuller]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>> I mentioned in another msg that I have an HD3000 and a PVR-250.  
>> While my 250 remote worked fine before in myth, it doesn' t now that 
>> I added the HD3000.
>>
>> It works fine outside of myth using irw:  the button presses are 
>> indicated on the commandline correctly. But, I don't know why they 
>> don't work inside of mythtv. I suppose it is because of HD3000 took 
>> over the /dev/video0 and the PVR-250 was relinquished to video1.
>> Is that what it could be?
>>
>> Can you have multiple remotes operating on the different cards? I 
>> don't see how that would work inside of myth.
>>
>> Maybe you can only assign one card for livetv? If so, how?
>>
>> thanks for any pointers!
>
>
> I'm not sure of your issue specifically, but to answer your questions 
> about remotes, the remote has nothing to do with the card 
> specifically.  Your PVR-250 capture card is really 2 devices to Myth, 
> a video device (/dev/video(0|1)) and an LIRC device (the IR receiver 
> part).  As long as LIRC is able to communicate with the remote it 
> should work.  That being said, double check your ~/.mythtv/lircrc file 
> which is the one that MythTV uses if you are set up for native LIRC 
> support.  It could be, for whatever reason, that you have your 
> ~/.lircrc file which LIRC by default uses set up right, but are 
> missing the entries in ~/.mythtv/lircrc which Myth uses. 

Thanks for the msg.
The remote worked fine before with the PVR-250. It's only when I put the 
HD3000 in and started myth that Mythtv didn't recognize it.
As I said, irw indicates that lirc is working fine. So, I don't know why 
it won't change channels, select, etc.

brad