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

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Mon Aug 26 10:57:39 UTC 2013


On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:55:19 +1200, you wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:45:03 +1000, you wrote:
>
>>On 26 August 2013 20:35, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> Your hardware.conf currently requires a /dev/lirc0 device.  Your udev
>>> rule is not creating that device, but is creating a /dev/mceremote
>>> device.  The /dev/lirc0 device may be being created automatically by
>>> something, but it would be best if you tied it all down using matching
>>> udev rules and hardware.conf settings.  With your current config, do
>>> you actually have a /dev/lirc0 device?  What does ls -al /dev/li*
>>> show?
>>
>>no, it looks at an lircX device, and create /dev/mceremote that is a link.
>>
>>lirc0 is created automatically by the kernel, like any other lirc
>>device. All I wanted was to have a constant device name that wouldn't
>>change between /dev/lirc0 , /dev/lirc1 etc...
>>
>>And proof is:
>>$ ls -l /dev | grep lirc
>>crw-------   1 root root    248,   0 Aug 25 18:41 lirc0
>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root          19 Aug 25 18:41 lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd
>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root           5 Aug 25 18:41 mceremote -> lirc0
>>
>>I've already posted the udevadm to /dev/lirc0
>>
>>but we're not here to argue about udev rules... it's not at play here
>
>That looks fine, with mceremote -> lirc0.  But if you have multiple IR
>receivers like me, then which one turns up on lirc0 can change with a
>reboot.  Which is why I use the udev rule to tie down /dev/lirc0 as my
>MCE remote.
>
>So, what does ir-keytable show?
>
>And if you run ir-keytable -t, do you see remote keys?
>
>Note that if your remote does not show up as /sys/class/rc/rc0/ in the
>ir-keytable listing, you will need to run
>
>  ir-keytable -t -s rcX
>
>where rcX is the MCE remote's rc device.

Oops, I forget to say that you need to stop lirc before ir-keytable -t
will work.


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