[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

[Nick Morrott]

On 28 August 2015 at 22:32, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

> I received my receiver and got it plugged into my new ECS Liva running
> Fedora 21. It seems to get recogized:
>
> [178998.885410] usb 1-1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
> [178999.061504] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=20cc
> [178999.061517] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=0
> [178999.061526] usb 1-1: Product: MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus
> [178999.061533] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: PHILIPS
> [178999.064751] usb 1-1: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep
> desc says 80 microframes
> [178999.085843] input: PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/0003:0471:20CC.0003/input/input9

Just wondering if this is the problem:

> [178999.137558] hid-generic 0003:0471:20CC.0003: input,hiddev0,hidraw2: USB
> HID v1.00 Keyboard [PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus] on
> usb-0000:00:14.0-1/input0

It's getting detected as a USB keyboard, not as an IR receiver?

What does the following show?

$ ls -l /sys/class/rc/

Do you see an rc node for the receiver?

Cheers,
Nick