It appears that people have been able to get the remote working with a NovaT setup. mad_paddler and parkinpants have written serious posts on this, but something is still not quite right in my setup.

The novas bypass lirc entirely unless done right, resulting in only arrows and numbers working and nothing else. This is not a config file issue as the functionality is the same whether lircd is running or not. The remote is said to function like a keyboard unless lirc grabs it. That appears correct. The remote arrows in a terminal window have the same function as on the keyboard.


This tells me my three Novas use event2 through 4. Connecting the ir dongle to the first card, nearest the AGP, and verifying event2 with:

and pressing the "other" (ff,rew,etc) keys *does* produce some weird characters, indicating that the event2 receives/intercepts the transmissions. It's alive!

Adapting /etc/lirc/hardware.conf to fit:


But starting lirc thus:

Still, only the arrow and number keys work. It appears that lirc still doesn't grab the events, although the process is running.

Does anyone have a clue how to continue the investigation?

I've tried IRW, but it does nothing at all, except shutting down the lircd. This seems to be valid for all nova-t boxes.

Cheers,
/Chris

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LinHES R8.6.1
BE: AMD64X4, 4GB, Hauppauge usb tuners
FE1: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4, nVidia GT640
FE2: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AthlonX2 4850E 2.5 GHz, 1GB, ASUS GEFORCE 7200GS 256MB
FE3: Asus Eeebox410

I got my remote working on r5f1 by doing the following:

nano /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

change the lines to:

DEVICE="/dev/input/eventX"
DRIVER="dev/input"
MODULES="lirc_dev"

Where X is the number you've already found (event2) using
cat /dev/input/event2

Restart lirc - /etc/init.d/lirc restart
(I can't remember but I may have restarted the computer here to get it working properly) then test using irw.

Oops! I did the changes to /etc/lirc/hardware.conf , but forgot to mention it in the first post. It's now updated.

Cheers,
/Chris

_________________
LinHES R8.6.1
BE: AMD64X4, 4GB, Hauppauge usb tuners
FE1: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4, nVidia GT640
FE2: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AthlonX2 4850E 2.5 GHz, 1GB, ASUS GEFORCE 7200GS 256MB
FE3: Asus Eeebox410

NaWaitaminute!
You're right - restarting the whole computer made things start working! irw does things it never did before (such as to run...). However, keys seem to be pointing to the wrong config file (hardware.conf.new).

This is enough to get me going again. I'll sort out the config files and mappings now.

Thanks!

Cheers,
/Chris

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LinHES R8.6.1
BE: AMD64X4, 4GB, Hauppauge usb tuners
FE1: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4, nVidia GT640
FE2: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AthlonX2 4850E 2.5 GHz, 1GB, ASUS GEFORCE 7200GS 256MB
FE3: Asus Eeebox410

Lirc can be a bit of a pain with mythtv, i can never get any changes i make to take effect until a reboot!