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

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > <snip>
>> > The first step is to inspect dmesg after connecting the device. There
>> > you should find something like:
>> >     rc0: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1784:0001)
>> as
>> >         /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb4/4-4/4-4:1.0/rc/rc0
>> > Here you can see the device's name: "Media center Ed. eHome..." and it's
>> > address: ...usb4/4-4/4-4:1.0/rc/rc0.
>> > As long as you have only one remote of each kind you can use simple name
>> > matching like in
>> >        --device=name='*eHome*'
>> > </snip>
>> >
>> > Where would you be using --device=name='*eHome*'? Is that if you're
>> > running Lirc from a command line rather than in daemon mode? I'm running
>> > it in daemon mode, so would I add this line in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf:
>> >
>> > REMOTE_DEVICE="name='*eHome*'"
>>
>> That said, I'm not 100% sure how the shell quoting is applied to the
>> hardware.conf stuff. You might need to either remove or escape the
>> single quotes.
>>
>
> for the record, this is how I've named the device
> in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf.
>
> 1) Get the device name:
>
> $ dmesg | grep rc[0-9]
> [   17.212027] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
> [   17.212822] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver
> (1934:5168) as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/rc/rc0/input5
> [   17.213472] rc0: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver
> (1934:5168) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/rc/rc0
> [   17.259901] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered
> at minor = 0
>
> 2) Update /etc/lirc/hardware.conf:
>
> REMOTE_DEVICE="name=*eHome?Infrared?Remote?Transceiver*"
>
> If I entered spaces between the words I got an error about invalid
> parameters on starting lirc. So I replaced each space with a single
> wildcard character ("?"). Lirc now starts up and I don't need the udev
> rules any more. If there's a more elegant way of doing this please let me
> know.
>
> Hope that helps someone in future.
>

Probably if you surrounded the name parameter with single quotes you could
use spaces. Something like this:
REMOTE_DEVICE="name='*eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver*'"

Or you may need to surround the entire parameter phrase with single quotes.

Karl
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