[mythtv-users] IguanaIR configuration

[Mike Perkins]

On 02/09/15 13:34, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2015 7:45 AM, "Alec Leamas" <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/09/15 13:06, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/09/15 06:10, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Okay. This isn't entirely how I expected things to happen. Add in two
>>> 16-month-old twin grand-daughters rampaging around the house and testing
>>> stuff becomes... interesting.
>>
>>
>> :)
>>
>>
>>> However:
>>>
>>> I finally figured out how to use irrecord and ended up with some
>>> surprising (to me) results. I assumed (!) that as the remote had a label
>>> on the back saying it was "Vista MCE Remote" that it would at least be
>>> RC-6. Nope. Nor RC-5 or anything else I tried.
>>
>>
>> Hm... tried? Did you give irrecord the chance to determine this on iẗ́s
> own, or did you use a generic template?
>>
>> That said, it seems things are getting through. This is a Good Sign,
> indeed.
>>
>>
>>>   All I got back was:
>>
>>
>> [cut]
>>
>>
>>> I tried irrecord in raw mode and it does, indeed, receive data and
>>> create a .conf file. However, I'm at a loss to know what to do with this
>>> and this wasn't my intent at all. I want to use standard codes if I can.
>>
>>
>>
>> Something is rotten here... You don't have any fluorescent light around,
> have you?
>>
>> However, a raw config file could be used exactly as a normal one. If you
> take your file with just a few buttons, copies it to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
> and then runs lircd + irw and checks those buttons?
>>
>>
>>> If that means my remote and dongle (which came from Maplin in the UK) is
>>> a lemon, so be it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Oops... out of Englisch, which certainly isn't my native language. Lemon?!
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --alec
>>
>
> Lemon, as in sour or hard to swallow, taken as a bad one of mass production.
>
Or, perhaps, a poorly-implemented Chinese knockoff. Not usually what I would 
expect from Maplins.

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Mike Perkins