[mythtv-users] MCE remote doesn't work after hardware upgrade

[Kris Jensen]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As always, many thanks to all the mythtv devs and contributors for
> such a great piece of software...
>
> After purchasing a new myth box my Media Center Remote is no longer
> working.
>
> The system contains a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD dual tuner and Microsoft
> MCE remote, both of which worked on the previous hardware with
> Mythbuntu 14.04.  Unfortunately the old system is busted, so I can't
> go back and compare it to the old system (thus the reason for the new
> hardware).
>
> Running irw and pressing buttons on the remote results in the LED in
> the receiver lighting up as expected, but nothing is printed from irw.
>
> Running lircd in console mode shows irw connecting as a client when it
> is run, but no other output.  I can't see anything that looks
> obviously like an error below.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Alistair
>
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Hi-ya,


 look in the file /etc/lirc/lircd.conf. Is it pointing to the remotes
configuration file?


 If not I think the file for mce remotes is
"/usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"


That's all I got.


 Hope it helps.
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