[mythtv-users] Hauppauge grey remote with homemade serial IR receiver in MythTV 0.26 and Fedora 19

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:54:35 -0700, you wrote:

>I have installed MythTV in Fedora 19 on a test box mostly following 
>these instructions, except using RPM Fusion and the Software Install GUI 
>instead of yum:
><http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora>
>
>Now I want to get my Hauppauge grey remote working with a homemade 
>serial receiver, which are currently working in MythDora 12.23, but I 
>have not been successful. I copied lircd.conf and .lircrc from the 
>MythDora installation to /etc/lirc and ~, respectively, on the test box, 
>but what now? (I've listed those files below my signature.)
>
>The documentation on the lirc.org page is not working right now, so I 
>installed lirc-docs. Those instructions assume you are compiling LIRC 
>from scratch, which I am not. According to this page, the LIRC modules 
>are already in the kernel.
><http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/LIRC>
>
>I tried running
>     #modprobe lirc_serial
>and it seemed to run OK, but neither irw nor irrecord is showing any 
>keypresses.
>
>What do I do now?
>
>Bob Shanteau

I do not know too much about current Fedora versions, but I have
fought and won the battle with all my IR receivers in Mythbuntu, after
they all started to do strange things when the drivers were migrated
into the kernel.  So if the lirc_serial driver has been migrated into
the kernel, that is likely the cause of your problems too.

I have a Hauppauge MCE remote on my personal MythTV box, using the IR
receiver that came with the Hauppauge PVR-500 card it came with.  On
my laptop there is a Hauppauge HVR-900 remote, and on my mother's
MythTV box, there is a Hauppauge Nova TD-500 remote, which works
almost exactly the same as the HVR-900 one.  So I can help with those
configurations.

I found this page:

 http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/Architecture_and_Customization

to be excellent for an explanation of how everything works now and the
tools to use for debugging at each step.  Of course, it is for LinHES,
so some of the files will be in different places in Fedora as they
were for me in Mythbuntu.

The step you are likely to be missing is using irkeytables, if your
driver has migrated to the kernel.

I have my working config files for the Hauppauge Nova TD-500 remote
available on my web site:

  http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/Nova-TD-500-lirc.bz2

Let me know if you would like a copy of the Hauppauge MCE remote files
too.