[mythtv-users] Help - Lirc broken after upgrade to 0.9.0

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:28 PM, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
...
> 
> CONFIG_RC_CORE=y
> CONFIG_LIRC=y
> # CONFIG_RC_MAP is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_NEC_DECODER is not set
> CONFIG_IR_RC5_DECODER=y
> # CONFIG_IR_RC6_DECODER is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_JVC_DECODER is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_SONY_DECODER is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_RC5_SZ_DECODER is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_LIRC_CODEC is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_ENE is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_IMON is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_MCEUSB is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_ITE_CIR is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_NUVOTON is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_STREAMZAP is not set
> # CONFIG_IR_WINBOND_CIR is not set
> # CONFIG_RC_LOOPBACK is not set
> 
> I'm using an Audiovox remote. Since I did not enable IR to LIRC
> bridge /dev/lirc(x) is not created.
> I had to enable evdev in kernel, this gives me /dev/input/event5 as IR.
> 
> cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> 
> I: Bus=0001 Vendor=7063 Product=5500 Version=0001
> N: Name="cx88 IR (pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV)"
> P: Phys=pci-0000:04:01.2/ir0
> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:04:01.2/rc/rc0/input5
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd event5 
> B: PROP=0
> B: EV=100013
> B: KEY=1000000 0 0
> B: MSC=10
> 
> I put 
> 
> LIRCD_OPTS="-H devinput -d /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:04:01.2-event-ir"
> 
> into /etc/conf.d/lircd and to my surprise it works. Had to create a new
> lircd.conf with irrecord of course, since I did not use in kernel maps.

Wrong. You're using an in-kernel RC5 map, and getting out linux input
namespace keycodes. And you didn't need to use irrecord, you just needed
to put lircd.conf.devinput provided by lirc in place.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com