[mythtv-users] Disable TurboSight IR driver ?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Nick,

Sunday, June 21, 2015, 3:02:53 PM, you wrote:

> On 21 June 2015 at 13:53, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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"

> <cut>

>>>> 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?
>>

>> 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.

> Is that just an issue for PCI card IR receivers? Curious why the
> symlinks are not created - perhaps
> /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules needs to be updated
> upstream?

> As Stephen is using his USB MCE receiver, that node should be present
> in /dev/input/by-id/.

> Cheers,
> Nick

Yes I think he has one and I suspect it to be a driver thing. Possibly
because ir is handled as a side-thing by the ivtv driver. Also a
humanly readable name gives less chance on typo's, so I do prefer
creating my own names. But everybody his own preferences.
And if you try to help, pointing to something that may or may not be
present can be confusing. And ones you know the pitfalls, creating
udev rules is simple.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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