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ceenvee703
PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:40 pm 
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I have to admit that it stopped working in conjunction with other things, some or all of which might have had something to do with it.

* While I was away on a business trip the power dropped for a few hours and the backend shut down.

* Apparently when it came back up the encoder cards (PVR-150 and HD3000 ATSC/DVB card) "moved" around in position so that the system no longer thought it had a PVR-150.

* Had to run mythtv-setup, dump cards, and recreate them

* Also rewired my home theater setup which required I unplug the combo blaster/receiver cable from the 150

The blasting part of the cable works fine after all that. It no longer responds to the remote.

I've run lirc-reconfig.sh a few times, each time picking what usually works. Nothing.

Here is the output from dmesg | grep lirc

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lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
lirc_pvr150: chip found with RX and TX
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_pvr150: firmware of size 258140 loaded
lirc_pvr150: 654 codesets loaded
lirc_pvr150: Hauppauge PVR-150 IR blaster: firmware version 2.1.0


No lirc-related events are in syslog or mythbackend.log

Running out of ideas. Thanks.
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Big boy stan
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:01 am 
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I had exactly the same situation (power out and remote died) about 6 months ago. After a lot of trouble shooting which did nothing, I finally did the hard power off (unplug) the computer for 5 minutes thing and it came right up. No idea why but give it a try (and cross your fingers).

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ceenvee703
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:16 pm 
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I powered off, unplugged, and crossed my fingers. Powered up, didn't help, still no remote. Thanks for the idea, though, it was worth a try.
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Big boy stan
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Oh well. it was worth a try.

I recently had some unrelated problems that caused my remote to stop working. I wound up doing a fresh install of Knoppmyth and reloading everthing before I got it to work. In any case what does a
lsmod |grep *ir*
show you?

My latest lirc related dmesg, lsmod, and other stuff are all listed here:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 6&start=15

Also I downloaded and used the latest firmware which you will see in the dmesg.

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ceenvee703
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:36 pm 
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All seems to agree with what you had except for firmware versions... mine reports 2.1

Code:
root@mbe:/home/ceenvee703# dmesg | grep lirc
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
lirc_pvr150: chip found with RX and TX
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_pvr150: firmware of size 258140 loaded
lirc_pvr150: 654 codesets loaded
lirc_pvr150: Hauppauge PVR-150 IR blaster: firmware version 2.1.0
root@mbe:/home/ceenvee703# lsmod | grep ir
lirc_pvr150            19512  3
lirc_dev               16132  1 lirc_pvr150
ivtv                  139200  5 lirc_pvr150
ir_common              34180  1 cx88xx
firmware_class         11392  6 lirc_pvr150,pcmcia,or51132,cx25840,ivtv,tuner_xc2028
i2c_core               23680  24 nvidia,lirc_pvr150,dvb_pll,or51132,wm8775,cx25840,cx88_vp3054_i2c,ivtv,saa7115,msp3400,tuner,tea5767,tda8290,tda18271,tda827x,tuner_xc2028,tda9887,tuner_simple,mt20xx,tea5761,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,v4l2_common
root@mbe:/home/ceenvee703# ls -la /dev/*ir*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 61, 0 Jun 22 12:47 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root      0 Jun 22 12:47 /dev/lircd
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Big boy stan
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:04 pm 
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How about a: irw
Does that let you connect or does it give you an error?

Also check your /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and make sure that it looks OK.

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tzoom84
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Funny, I am now having the same problem, with a PVR150 remote ... after a power outage as well (as in above)!

When I try irw, I get no errors. It's just a blank screen. No other system mods since then, just that power outage.

Similar outputs are seen:

Code:
sh-3.1$ dmesg | grep lirc
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
lirc_pvr150: chip found with RX and TX
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_pvr150: firmware of size 258140 loaded
lirc_pvr150: 654 codesets loaded
lirc_pvr150: Hauppauge PVR-150 IR blaster: firmware version 2.1.0
lirc_pvr150: ivtv i2c driver #1: no devices found

sh-3.1$ lsmod | grep ir
lirc_pvr150            19512  3
lirc_dev               16132  1 lirc_pvr150
ivtv                  139200  3 lirc_pvr150
firmware_class         11392  5 lirc_pvr150,pcmcia,cx25840,ivtv,tuner_xc2028
i2c_core               23680  21 nvidia,lirc_pvr150,wm8775,cx25840,ivtv,saa7115,msp3400,tuner,tea5767,tda8290,tda18271,tda827x,tuner_xc2028,tda9887,tuner_simple,mt20xx,tea5761,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_nforce2,tveeprom,v4l2_common

sh-3.1$ ls -la /dev/*ir*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 61, 0 Sep 18 23:52 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root      0 Sep 18 23:52 /dev/lircd

sh-3.1$ ps axu | grep lirc
root      3456  0.6  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Sep18   0:07 [lirc_pvr150]
root      3464  0.0  0.3   5660  3316 ?        Ss   Sep18   0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0
mythtv    8522  0.0  0.0   1780   596 ttyp2    S+   00:12   0:00 grep lirc
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ceenvee703
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:40 am 
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I still have the problem, could never figure it out or get it working, so I worked around it--I use my IR keyboard instead of a remote. (Actually, I tried to get my Harmony 880 to emulate the IR keyboard but that has its own raft of problems.)

I would love to figure this out, or even to just determine somehow if the IR receiver died due to the power failure (although it would be odd that the blaster would continue to work since it's the same cable and all).

tzoom84, if you get any results let me know. Hopefully reviving this thread will spark some other ideas on how to troubleshoot.
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tzoom84
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ceenvee703:

I'd hate to tell ya this because you already tried it. But my solution was as others mentioned, to literally unplug the power cord from the system, wait a few mins, and plug back in. Must be some sort of hardware hangup tied to the PVR150 card that still holds some charge when plugged in.

So that simple solution fixed my issue. I wish you luck with yours!
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Worth trying again, if it works it'll be an easy fix. I'm shutting down now, gonna pull the plug and wait 30 minutes for good measure. Once more crossing fingers, thanks.
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Nope, no dice. Thanks anyway for the reminder.
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ceenvee, I have had the same problem maybe 2 or 3 times. Very frustrating. The first time I fixed it but I dont really know what I did. The last time I did an auto upgrade back to the same version and that fixed it. Kinda like killing a mosquito with a sledge hammer but...

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I get a similar problem when I start up the system with my APC UPS usb connector plugged in.

Un plug that, shut the system down, kill power witch or Unplug. Wait 15 min or so. Power up and it all works.

would seem to be something in the way it is getting recognized in the system and that has to clear (the long power down) before it will work again.
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Aha! I do indeed have a APC UPS connected via USB.

So are you saying to power up with the UPS disconnected, then plug it in after everything is back up and running?

EDIT: and when I say "with the UPS disconnected" I mean "with the UPS's USB cable disconnected from the computer"
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:25 am 
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Yes

I haven't been able to get the UPS monitoring function working, but I do know that I can power up the myth box without the usb connected, then the blaster works.

I can plug the ups cable back in and the blaster continues to work.
UPS control and monitoring however does not.

I have started wondering if it has to do with how dev gets populated, but that is a separate topic.

It may be different than your situation, but might be worth a try to see if your blaster will work again.

All of this is on my MBE, hardware specs are in my Sig below, except now I am running R5.5

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SBE: AMD XP2000, GA 7ZMMH, 1 Gig, XFX 256M 6200, 20 Gig, PVR-150 Retail w/Blaster
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