[mythtv-users] Trying To Get Two IR Receivers Working

[Alec Leamas]

On 14/10/15 18:19, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/14/2015 8:21 AM, Karl Newman wrote:
>>
>>
>> First just run ir-keytable and see what it finds. If it finds nothing,
>> then try testing it with ir-keytable -t -d /dev/input/event11 and see
>> what you get. (If you reboot or replug the receiver, check dmesg |
>> grep input for possible new numbers).
> 
> ir-keytable -t by itself returns nothing. When I get home, I'll try your
> idea and see what happens. But then how do I test with irw? Is that even
> applicable to devinput devices? Do I provide that device line to irw?

The devinput LIRC driver does exactly this - acts as a bridge between
the kernel decoding and the LIRC application interface. You feed the
event device as the --device option to devinput, starts lircd and then
uses irw. This is what's described in [2]

You can use udev rules to handle that the event device is not fixed as
Karl described. However, it's not really necessary, see [1]

Cheers!

--alec

[1] http://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html#appendix-6
[2]
http://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html#key-symbols-using-linux-input-layer