[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

[Tom Bishop]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On 8/12/2015 12:19 PM, Tom Bishop wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
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>> As part of getting my ECS Liva working, I plugged in an old Microsoft
>> branded IR receiver and it worked great with Fedora 21's mceusb driver.
>> When I moved the Liva to the TV location I swapped in the off-brand/generic
>> IR receiver that had been working for years with CentOS 6 and the mceusb
>> driver therein.
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>> Guess what? Nothing.
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>> So I swapped the old Microsoft receiver to get things working. But why
>> didn't the other receiver work? I had also purchased an inexpensive HP
>> receiver and in a fit of pique threw it in the trash when it didn't work
>> with the Liva. I think I was rash.
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>> Can anyone provide any guidance on getting an off-brand receiver working
>> with newer kernels? I assume support for older hardware has been removed. I
>> recall the HP receiver did load mceusb and identify it as the usual "eHome
>> receiver" I've always seen. Just no output from irw.
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>> Can anyone point to USB IR receivers available that work with current
>> kernels? Obviously the old Microsoft receivers are long out of stock.
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> Best one I have found and have been using them for quite some time, they
> work really well -
> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-RC2604315-01BG-Media-Center-Remote-Control-USB-IR-Receiver-OVU710018-01-/251421736049>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-RC2604315-01BG-Media-Center-Remote-Control-USB-IR-Receiver-OVU710018-01-/251421736049
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> ymmv, etc
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Latest versions of openelec, which are running very recent kernels.
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