[mythtv-users] Anyone Using LIRC on CentOS 6.6?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Kirk,

Saturday, June 6, 2015, 7:21:18 AM, you wrote:



> On June 5, 2015 9:19:33 PM PDT, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hoi Kirk,
>>
>>Saturday, June 6, 2015, 1:53:38 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 6/5/2015 1:18 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>> I suddenly remember something that maybe helps. On my machine in
>>>> /etc/rc_keymaps are the mappings used by the kernel. I don't
>>remember
>>>> exactly, but I did edit a file in there to include a not supported
>>>> remote, so I could use it with my PVR350 devinput sensor as I do on
>>my
>>>> home-brew. That was a year ago.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>> Thank you for the suggestions. It did boil down to my remote 
>>> configuration file. My physical remote was programmable as an MCE 
>>> remote. I swapped in the mceusb configuration file and everything is
>>now
>>> just working.
>>
>>> irw:
>>> 000000037ff07bdf 00 KEY_LEFT mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bdf 01 KEY_LEFT mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bdf 02 KEY_LEFT mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bdd 00 KEY_OK mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bdd 01 KEY_OK mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bdd 02 KEY_OK mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bde 00 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bde 01 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
>>> 000000037ff07bde 02 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
>>
>>> I spent some time editing ~/.mythtv/lircrc for Myth and ~/.lircrc for
>>
>>> mplayer putting in all the new namespace strings and everything is
>>just
>>> working. Yay!
>>
>>> Although Alec stated the older configuration files are compatible, 
>>> clearly this is not the case. I even tried directly using the
>>Scientific
>>> Atlanta file without changes. It generated an error on the first
>>section
>>> of the file. And obviously the rest of it just wasn't working.
>>
>>> Thank you everyone for your help and suggestions.
>>
>>Great it works... finally. Can we impose on you to add to the wiki???
>>
>>

> Happy to. But what info and which page? This has mostly been about
> me flailing about. I'm not sure about config incompatibilities without confirmation.

There are some pages about lirc and if none are applicable add a new
one. Just add the info you needed to start with, that would prevent
somebody else from having the same failures you had. The best would be
a step by step path to succes.


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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