[mythtv-users] Fedora 14 & Hauppauge (Grey) & lirc devinput with Nova-T

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Nigel Jewell wrote:

> I've just moved my Myth installation from CentOS 5 i386, to CentOS 5 x86_64 
> and eventually settled on Fedora 14 (x86_64).
>
> In CentOS 5 my Hauppauge remote (A415-HPG) connected to a Nova-T worked fine 
> with lirc using devinput in both architectures using the same lircd.conf.
>
> Now I've moved to Fedora 14 I cannot get it to work.  If I monitor it using 
> "mode2" I can see the events arriving, but irw shows no output and creating a 
> file using irrecord is proving to be impossible.  Each time that I run it I 
> eventually see the message:
>
> ..............................................................
> irrecord: could not find gap.
> irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
>
> This normally occurs towards the end of the first recording stage.

I seem to recall I had the same problem moving my lircd.conf from Fedora 8
to Fedora 14.

> Has anyone managed to get this remote working with Fedora 14?

Yup, try:

irrecord -H devinput -d /dev/input/by-path/pci-[...]-event-ir $HOME/lircd.conf

to generate a new lircd.conf in $HOME

you'll need to substitute your PCI device number for the ellipsis.

You might also need to prevent haldaemon from grabbing the device from under
lircd's feet:

# pwd
/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty

# cat 10-ignore-cx88-ir.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
  <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="cx88 ir">
     <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
  </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

# cat 10-ignore-dvbusb-ir.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
  <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="IR-receiver">
     <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
  </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

See <http://www.lirc.org/html/devinput.html> for more info on this, if you
need to adjust the rules for your hardware.

> FYI: I'm using the stock lirc 0.8.7 rpm, and kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64.

lirc-0.8.7-1.fc14.x86_64 and kernel-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 here.

> Regards,
> Nige.

HTH,
Alex