[mythtv-users] Lirc MIA with Dvico USB and 0.24 fixes

John Haywood john at jhit.com.au
Mon Jan 17 00:22:56 UTC 2011


On 17/01/2011, at 10:32 AM, Paul Bender wrote:

> On 1/16/2011 2:50 PM, John Haywood wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> lircd is running:
>> tvuser at mythtv:~$ ps aux|grep lirc
>> root      1321  0.0  0.0  32124   716 ?        Ss   Jan16   0:01 /usr/sbin/lircd --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd --driver=dvico --device=/dev/lirc0
>> 
>>  irw gives me nothing, as in no keypresses, so I'm guessing a device might not be present?
>> There are no /dev/lircn entries, only /dev/lircd
>> There are three /dev/hidraw entries
> 
> I believe that the --device option is wrong as the dvico is a raw hid device. I do not know how things are configure in your distribution. However, wherever you configure LIRC parameters you should set the device to the appropriate raw hid device.

Thanks for the quick response!

Now, unfortunately, this is installed as part of the default mythbuntu installation, so I'm not sure where it gets set.

Perhaps some knowledgeable mythbuntu personage could fill me in here...


cheers

John



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