[mythtv-users] LIRC not detecting certain keypresses with MCE remotes (modifiers?)

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Tim,

Thursday, July 23, 2015, 12:10:29 PM, you wrote:



> ---- On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:06:00 +0100 Hika van den
> Hoven<hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote ---- 

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 >> Doesn't the MCE have it's own usb receiver? That won't be influenced 
 >> by the bios. 
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 >> Tot mails, 
 >>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com 


> sorry, that wasnt overly clear... the 2 IR devices i have according
> to ir-keytable are both with the built in NUC IR reciever, i dont have a seperate USB IR dongle.
> # ir-keytable -d /dev/input/event4
> Name: ITE8713 CIR transceiver
> bus: 25, vendor/product: 1283:0000, version: 0x0000

> # ir-keytable -d /dev/input/event5
> Name: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (ite-cir)
> bus: 0, vendor/product: 0000:0000, version: 0x0000

> I'm trying to get lirc/mythtv to respond to the event5 MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse.

Then if I understand what is happening, event4  is the receiver and
event5 just the keytables for the MCE as loaded by the kernel. So
event5 sits on top of event4.


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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