[mythtv-users] Disable TurboSight IR driver ?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Nick,

Sunday, June 21, 2015, 2:39:02 PM, you wrote:

> On 10 June 2015 at 06:45, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

>>>Does anyone know of a way to turn off the IR drivers from TBS and just
>>>have the one - that way I'll be certain I'm trying to send to the correct
>>>device.
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>
>> I have a TBS IR on my 5922 DVB-S2 USB tuner, as well as others on
>> other cards, but I use my mceusb one.  So I put these udev rules in my
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules file:
>>
>> # Hauppauge ("SMK Manufacturing, Inc. eHome Infrared Receiver") USB
>> MCE remote control IR receiver
>> SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0609",
>> ATTRS{idProduct}=="031d", SYMLINK+="lirc-mce"
>>
>> # Hauppauge WinTV Nova TD-500 remote control IR receiver
>> SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2040",
>> ATTRS{idProduct}=="8400", SYMLINK+="lirc-nova-td-500"
>>
>> # AverMedia AVerTV DVB-T Volar USB remote control IR receiver
>> SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="07ca",
>> ATTRS{idProduct}=="b808", SYMLINK+="lirc-volar"
>>
>> # TBS QBox 5922 USB remote control IR receiver
>> SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="734c",
>> ATTRS{idProduct}=="5922", SYMLINK+="lirc-tbs-5922"
>>
>> # Allow MythTV (mythtv group) access to the rtc hardware for
>> mythfrontend to use it for timing.
>> KERNEL=="rtc0", GROUP="mythtv", MODE="0660"
>>
>> They allow me to use this line in my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file to
>> use my mceusb IR:
>>
>> REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc-mce"
>>
>> I would guess that you would be able to use a rule similar to my 5922
>> one, just specifying the model number of your TBS card as the
>> idProduct value.  The lsusb command should show the correct numbers,
>> and also for your mceusb IR device, presuming that it also is USB, as
>> mine is.

> As you're using input layer devices (as opposed to native LIRC -
> /dev/lirc*), is there something stopping you from using one of the
> uniquely-named device nodes[1] in /dev/input/by-id/ that are always
> present?

> These can be used in your LIRC hardware.conf file directly and
> completely[2] remove the need for managing udev rules to rename input
> layer devices.

> Unlike the standard /dev/event* nodes, the /dev/input/y-id/ nodes also
> don't change name/order depending on which input devices are plugged
> in.

>   [1] they're really just symlinks to the relevant /dev/event* nodes
>   [2] unless you want absolute control over node names


> Cheers,
> Nick

They don't show up for all devices. For instance not for my PVR350.
Probably because if I query it it shows up as a virtual device without
either pci-path, pci-id or usb-id. I create a simlink on the
ATTRS{name} attribute.



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