[mythtv-users] Problems after upgrading frontend from Mythbuntu 12.04 to 14.04

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 21:45:04 UTC 2015


>
> ircat is step three.  Let's focus on step two i. e., irw first.
>
> Could you please post your hardware.conf, output from ir-keytable -t
> while pushing some buttons and devinput.lircd.conf. The latter is quite
> large, so post a pastebin link or so.
>

Thanks for sticking with me on this! I've set my hardware.conf as per
Stephen Worthington's with the only change being the REMOTE_DEVICE setting:

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#

#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES=""
REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

##Chosen Remote Control
#REMOTE="Hauppauge Nova-T 500"
#REMOTE_MODULES=""
#REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
#REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc-nova-tv-500"
#REMOTE_SOCKET=""
#REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"
#REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

##Chosen IR Transmitter
#TRANSMITTER="Microsoft Windows Media Center V2 (usb) : Sky New Zealand
Receiver"
#TRANSMITTER_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
#TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
#TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
#TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
#TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF="skynz/general.conf"
#TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Disable kernel support.
#Typically, lirc will disable in-kernel support for ir devices in order to
#handle them internally.  Set to false to prevent lirc from disabling this
#in-kernel support.
DISABLE_KERNEL_SUPPORT="true"
#DISABLE_KERNEL_SUPPORT="false"

#Enable lircd
START_LIRCD="true"

#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
#START_LIRCMD="false"

#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
LOAD_MODULES="false"
#LOAD_MODULES="true"

# Default configuration files for your hardware if any
LIRCMD_CONF=""

#Forcing noninteractive reconfiguration
#If lirc is to be reconfigured by an external application
#that doesn't have a debconf frontend available, the noninteractive
#frontend can be invoked and set to parse REMOTE and TRANSMITTER
#It will then populate all other variables without any user input
#If you would like to configure lirc via standard methods, be sure
#to leave this set to "false"
FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="true"
START_LIRCMD=""


Sample output from sudo ir-keytable -t (with lirc running) is:

$ sudo ir-keytable -t
[sudo] password for phill:
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
1449610455.980613: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610455.980613: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610456.056618: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0415
1449610456.056618: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_REWIND(0x0001)
1449610456.056618: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610456.081605: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_REWIND(0x0001)
1449610456.081605: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610456.081605: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610456.162600: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0415
1449610456.162600: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_REWIND(0x0001)
1449610456.162600: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610456.186601: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_REWIND(0x0001)
1449610456.186601: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610456.186601: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610458.446497: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610458.446497: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610458.522496: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f041b
1449610458.522496: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_PREVIOUS(0x0001)
1449610458.522496: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610458.554489: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_PREVIOUS(0x0001)
1449610458.554489: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610458.554489: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610458.628493: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f041b
1449610458.628493: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_PREVIOUS(0x0001)
1449610458.628493: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610458.878927: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_PREVIOUS(0x0001)
1449610458.878927: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610461.712348: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610461.712348: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610461.795350: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0417
1449610461.795350: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_RECORD(0x0001)
1449610461.795350: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610461.824348: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_RECORD(0x0001)
1449610461.824348: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610461.824348: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610461.900345: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0417
1449610461.900345: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_RECORD(0x0001)
1449610461.900345: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610462.150929: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_RECORD(0x0001)
1449610462.150929: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610464.342225: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610464.342225: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610464.415225: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0401
1449610464.415225: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_NUMERIC_1(0x0001)
1449610464.415225: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610464.522221: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0401
1449610464.522221: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610464.554220: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_NUMERIC_1(0x0001)
1449610464.554220: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610464.554220: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610469.477990: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610469.477990: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610469.551993: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0418
1449610469.551993: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_PAUSE(0x0001)
1449610469.551993: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610469.578991: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_PAUSE(0x0001)
1449610469.578991: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610469.578991: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610469.658991: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x800f0418
1449610469.658991: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_PAUSE(0x0001)
1449610469.658991: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1449610469.697985: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_PAUSE(0x0001)
1449610469.697985: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1449610469.697985: event type EV_SYN(0x00).


Is the other file you requested called lircd.conf.devinput as opposed
to devinput.lircd.conf?
I only have the former. I mention the difference in case it indicates a
problem with my setup. The contents
of /usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput are at
http://pastebin.com/spCfQx5w
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