[mythtv-users] Hauppage remote - I've had numbers and keys working, but nothing else.

Damian damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Thu Nov 29 09:29:43 UTC 2007


David Watkins wrote:
> On 28/11/2007, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've just posted to a thread regarding the Hauppage remote on a
>> Mythbuntu foum, but thought I'd ask here too.
>>
>> I've never managed to get my remote to work. Pre or post Mythbuntu. I
>> was hoping that Mythbuntu would sort it out (one of my main reasons for
>> installing it on top of my Ubuntu/Mythtv system), but still nothing. I
>> have number keys and directional key working, but pretty much nothing
>> else so I have to use my keyboard all or the time.
>>
>> I have 2 Hauppage Nova-t cards in my machine and a long ir cable coming
>> out of one of them (I actually spliced two together to make it long
>> enough, but there is input getting in so i don't think that's causing a
>> problem).
>>
>> The person who started the thread I repled to got things working after
>> he seilised that his remote was recognised by the kernel and followed
>> some advice here:
>> http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu2.php
>> I have just re-looked at the parker site and ran
>> cat /proc/bus/input/devices
>>
>> where I find I have 2 Hauppage entries (to be expected), on event 5 and
>> evern6.
>>
>> Running
>> sudo evetest /dev/input/event5
>> doesn't do much, but
>> sudo evetest /dev/input/event6
>> fills me with hope. Everything I press suddenly does give me a response!
>> I don't understand the responses, but they're there
>>
>> However, when I go down further to the part where it says:
>> As usual, we'll give it a quick test ...
>> sudo /usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event2 -n
>> and (in another terminal)
>> irw
>> "Press some buttons and you should see the events displayed"
>> Well, I see nothing at all displayed! Not even the numbers and cursor
>> keys giving any input now!
> 
> You need to make sure you've got lircd configured right.
> 
> I used
> 
> irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 mylircd.conf
> 
>  then copy mylircd.conf to /etc/lircd.conf
> 
> then start lircd with
> 
> lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 /etc/lircd.conf
> 
> This maps your key-codes to labels.
> 
> You also need an lircrc file where you attach the labels to the mythtv
> key mappings.  See
> 
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#lirc
> 
> for help with this.
> 
> There's a fairly good wiki page too
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI
> 
> I also ended putting this in my xorg.conf file
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier "remote"
>         Driver "evdev"
>         Option "Name" "Hauppauge Nova-T"
>         Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
>         Option "Protocol" "evdev"
>         Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
> EndSection
> 
> to get the evdev driver loaded, but I can't remember where I got that
> bit of black magic from.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
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Thank a lot David,

I'll try all of that out!

Damian


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