[mythtv-users] Lirc + mceusb + MythTV
Rich West
Rich.West at wesmo.com
Mon Oct 29 20:35:21 UTC 2012
Maybe I need to step back one level. Right now, I have one remote which
controls all of the physical devices (tv, receiver, etc) except for the
frontend power. So, volume & mute are mapped accordingly to the receiver or
tv (depending on room). However, you still need to physically turn on the
mythtv frontend and wait for it to power all of the way up.
I guess what I am trying to do is to add the functionality of supporting
having the new system go in and out of suspend. I can't lose
functionality. But if I can't get that added functionality now, I guess
that is ok. I will have to buy new IR receivers, though, since my other
systems have serial-based ones.. so I would prefer to buy the right kind. :)
I have an SMK USB IR receiver that works well, but it does not have the
ability to wake the machine out of suspend mode..
-Rich
On 10/29/2012 3:17 PM, Rich West wrote:
> I admit my question is probably more in the lirc realm than mythtv, yet
> after a lot of searching, numerous tries, questions with different answers,
> this community is more likely to have paved this road already. In other
> words, I haven't had much luck elsewhere. :( That, and I've fallen down the
> rabbit hole and can't find my way out. :)
>
> Backstory:
> I'm trying to increase the WAF (Wife Approval Factor) by updating my
> frontends with some very nice book-sized systems with SSD's and the ability
> to put the system into/out-of suspend from the remote control.
>
> I've been using a OneForAll remote (URC-6131n) with a serial IR receiver on
> each of my existing systems, and the remote happily controls (via the
> appropriate lircd.conf file) mythtv, the TV power, volume (depending upon
> room, it could be volume on an amp or volume on the tv), and power for
> everything but the mythtv frontend computer.
>
> These book sized systems are fast and very quiet. And, being a bit more
> modern than my SK21G shuttle boxes, they can wake up from suspend from an
> MCE remote.
>
> So.. my quandary:
>
> I had purchased at one time about 2 years ago a USB IR receiver and MCE
> remote. At the time, I determined an MCE remote was just plain garbage (I
> needed "One Remote To Rule Them All".. hence the OneForAll remote. :) ) and
> I put it aside. With this new system I am testing (Fedora16,
> mythtv-0.25.2), I found that this little MCE IR receiver, when the power
> button was hit on the MCE remote, would wake the system out of suspend mode
> with the right acpi events defined (echo enabled >
> /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-4/power/wakeup; cat /proc/acpi/wakeup; udev rule,
> etc) and BIOS setting.
>
> However, I cannot seem get the IR receiver to receive anything other than
> input from the POS MCE remote.
>
> The device "Bus 004 Device 002: ID 073a:2230 Chaplet Systems, Inc." gets
> identified and picked up by the kernel module "mceusb". I'd like to wrap it
> around lirc so I can map additional buttons, perform more complex functions
> (X10 off the lights, which I do with the serial IR receiver), etc.
>
> I tried a number of different methods, yet I am also trying to stay
> supportable (I would prefer to not recompile the kernel each time I upgrade)
> and as main-stream as possible (arguments about the distro of choice aside,
> of course).
>
>
> usb 4-4: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 has 2 endpoint descriptors,
> different from the interface descriptor's value: 1
> usb 4-4: New USB device found, idVendor=073a, idProduct=2230
> usb 4-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
> input: HID 073a:2230 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb4/4-4/4-4:1.0/input/input5
> hid-generic 0003:073A:2230.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [HID
> 073a:2230] on usb-0000:00:12.0-4/input0
>
> "/usr/sbin/lircd --driver=devinput --device=/dev/input/event4" can be run
> and it definitely overrides input (the mce remote stops working), yet I get
> nothing from irw or irrecord.
>
> I saw a bunch of older postings from Jarod Wilson along with a few others,
> yet I still seem stuck in the same position. Any pointers in the right
> direction would be fantastic. I just get the feeling that (1) this is
> do-able with the hardware I have and (2) I can't be the only one to do this.. :)
>
> Thanks!
> -Rich
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