[mythtv-users] Foiled by lirc - yet again

[Phil Bridges]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From reading your message, it doesn't even sound like you tried making
>  >  the config file. You didn't specify an error messages or anything...it
>  >  sounds like you gave up as soon as you saw the 2's instead of dots. If
>  >  thats so, why don't you just go ahead and try and see what happens?
>  >  After you have the conf file created and in the right location,
>  >  restart lirc and use irw to see if it detects all of your keys when
>  >  you press them.
>
>  It doesn't let me create a lircd.conf file. This is what I get:
>
>  <snip>
>  ......
>  It is very important that you press many different buttons and hold them
>  down for approximately one second. Each button should generate at least one
>  dot but in no case more than ten dots of output.
>  Don't stop pressing buttons until two lines of dots (2x80) have been
>  generated.
>
>  Press RETURN now to start recording.
>  1111111111111111112222222222222222222222223333333333333333333333333334444444444444444444444445irrecord:
>  no data for 10 secs, aborting
>  irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
>  [root at elm ~]# 1111111111111111112222222222222222222222223333333333333333333333333334444444444444444444444445555
>  </snip>
>
>  Regards,
>  Phill
>

It looks to me like you don't even need lirc running with this
"remote" - it appears to just be a wireless keyboard in remote control
form.  Have you tried updating the Mythtv key mappings to match the
remote and use it without launching lirc?