[mythtv-users] Anybody had any luck with Gentoo/lirc-0.9.0/MCE remotes?

[Robert Longbottom]

On 13/01/2012 20:39, Robert Longbottom wrote:
> On 13/01/2012 14:38, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> I've had a bear of a time getting all of the buttons on my MCE remote
>> working on my new Gentoo MythTV install (3.1.6 kernel, I believe) with
>> lirc-0.9.0. All that is working are my arrow keys. Unfortunately,
>> the older lirc (0.8.7?) won't compile to do some changes in the kernel
>> (bomps out on a smp.h file), or I'd just downgrade and not use
>> devinput.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> I had a similar pain of a time getting my MCE remote to work with
> lirc-0.9.0 on kernel 2.6.38 but I did eventually manage to get it
> working. It was some time ago and I can't remember exactly what
> eventually fixed it, but one thing that I have in my local start scripts is
>
> echo "rc-6" > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
>
> I think this might have been the key.
>
> Robert.

Ah, and I've just found my notes from when I build my frontend box.

##
# Remote Control
##
Lirc 0.9.0 + devinput, (set LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" in make.conf)
need mceusb module from kernel
need to set protocol = RC-6 in /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
need to run lirc, pointing at the /dev/input/eventx
need the lirc.devinput.conf
need .lircrc for mythtv

Robert.