[mythtv-users] Remotes

[Mike Holden]

Marc wrote:
> SSH into your system and run irw and press all your remote buttons. This
> will confirm that they are all configured in your  lircd.conf
>
> If any buttons are not working you need to add them to the  lircd.conf
> There should be plenty of help in the WIKI on how to do this.
>
>
>
> Once you have all the buttons configured in lircd.conf you need to map
> them
> in your ~/.lircrc and ~/.mythtv/lircrc file(s).
>
> Most people just create one file and symlink it to the other location.
> Again, there should be plenty of help on the WIKI for this.

I have had this problem as well, and it is NOT a lircd.conf / lircrc problem.

I know this because I had 2 cards in my box, the above Nova T card and a
PVR350. Using the IR receiver in the 350 worked fine, but plugging it
instead into the 500 the remote works as described above - 0-9, *, # and
up, down, left, right send codes, but nothing else does.

The weird thing is that irw doesn't see anything, but a simple terminal
screen displays the codes. For this reason, it's easy to believe that irw
is seeing the codes, but if you change focus to another terminal window
and press the remote again, the keys appear there instead - it's as if the
remote is working like a regular keyboard rather than an IR remote.

The terminal doesn't receive "codes" as such, it actually receives "keys",
so up, down send ^[[A, ^[[B etc, and you can use "up" to retrieve the
previous commands in a bash shell etc.

I haven't bothered pursuing this because I am only testing on the current
box, and am migrating to a new box with an iMon IR in it (antec fusion) so
will use that in preference to an external IR receiver on a wire.
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