[mythtv-users] Desperate: Help with ir-keytable and IguanaIR

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/17/2017 01:07 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>
> One quick question on the IguanaIR: This is the dual channel
> transceiver. Is that supposed to have any LED or the like that would
> light up when receiving like the MCE does? Mine stays totally dark.
> I'd like to know if it might just be defective.
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> Wow...now I'm really starting to wonder if this IguanaIR unit isn't
> just plain bad. I just dug out an old remote from a Phillips DVD
> player I had. That works with my MCE USB receiver and the rc-6
> protocol just fine, but again, gets absolutely nothing from using the
> IguanaIR with rc-6. That sort of rules out any issue with NEC
> specifically. I hope someone can answer my question as to whether
> those are supposed to light up.
>
> I have never seen anything light up on the IguanaIR.
>
> I have not used it for a while, but it worked very well when I did use it.
> It is however a bit of a pain to set up. You need to install the IguanaIR
> driver from their web site and set up LIRC. The LIRC that came with UBUNTU
> did not include the IguanaIR support and I had to download lirc and compile
> it myself with IguanaIR support.
>
> You need to find or create an lircd.conf file that matches your remote.
> There is a web site with configuration files for many remotes. If you do not
> find yours there you can create it using the irrecord utility.
>
> You need to start by reading the documentation and instructions on the
> Iguanair web site. They are fairly comprehensive.
>
> Peter
>

Thanks! Yea...from what I've read it appears there are no lights to
tell me anything.

Actually I'm using just ir-keytable...no LIRC. Also, the Linux kernel
has built in support for IguanaIR so none of that should be needed at
all (since about the 3.6 kernel and I'm on 4.12.12), any more that for
MCE or serial.

The setup with ir-keytable is actually pretty simple. If the driver
weren't installed I wouldn't be getting the device/event stuff above.
As long as the correct protocol is enabled for that device,
"ir-keytable -t" should just work...which it does with my MCE, and did
with the old serial port IR. Also, as noted in my last reply, I've
been able to get a completely different remote with a different
protocol to work with the MCE, and that has no sign of life with the
Iguana. I'm beginning to think it's just plain dead. I don't even get
output from the raw device with:

od -x /dev/input/event40

For now I'm using the MCE, but it's a bit unreliable, where you have
to hit buttons more than once.

Tom