[mythtv-users] Remote Trouble works partial in mythtv and fully in xbmc

[Johnny Walker]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Lasse Knudsen
> <lasse.h.knudsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I realized something the lircd was not running at all, but even then it was
>> able to send the arrowkeys, enter, mute, volume. I find it highly strange
>> could someone please take a look at this picture and see if they can
>> identify the remote?
>>
>> http://share.ovi.com/media/lasseknudsen.public/lasseknudsen.10003
>>
>> Getting this to work is driving me insane, if i had the 700 DKK (140USD), i
>> would buy the Windows MCE Remotes, but that is not an option.
>>
>> -lasse
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Lasse Knudsen <lasse.h.knudsen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi JJ,
>>> >
>>> > thank you so far i have not seen that specific problem, i noticed that
>>> > the
>>> > mute button works aswell, i find it highly peculiar :)
>>>
>>> It's possible that the pulse audio manager in xfce is acting upon the
>>> input from the remote control.
>>>
>>> I can't seem to locate the thread on how to disable it but there's an
>>> xfce control panel option for disabling the autostarted programs. The
>>> pulse audio manager will be listed in there, it was last on my list.
>>>
>>> This was causing me to see duplicate osd popups for volume commands,
>>> including mute.
>>>
>>> -JJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > -lasse
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Lasse Knudsen
>>> >> <lasse.h.knudsen at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > Greetings,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > i got myself a pair of Asus remotes  see picture to identify
>>> >> > http://share.ovi.com/media/lasseknudsen.public/lasseknudsen.10003
>
> Thought you'd just slip that cat in the back of the photo for fun there, huh?
>
> I also don't recognize the remote but I'm no expert.
>
> If the volume keys are working then it would seem that you have the
> correct module loaded.
>
> There don't seem to be too many Asus remotes listed in the lirc
> project - you could just try all 5 of them.
>
> http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/asus/
>
> Also if you read the conf files you will see the names of the keys and
> possibly be able to determine which is the correct one.
>
In fact after squinting at your picture I have determined it must be this one:

http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/asus/lircd.conf.digimatrix

As it's the only one with the following buttons:

Videos - Pictures - Music.

Good luck !

-JJ