I am assuming this is a hardware question, due to the syslog message I found. I have a MCE remote with an SMK USB receiver. It had worked previously, but as of the latest release (R5F1), it does not. I tried starting lirc manually and using irw... the following is the tail of the syslog.



Using mode2, I can see the signal coming in, and I still have the lircd.conf and lircrc files that worked previously. My receiver is lirc0, but for some reason, this seems to be trying to use my keyboard (hiddev0).

Any ideas?

See the R5F1 hints under LIRC. The device names changed because of udev, which means changing the reference in hardware.conf.

I fixed the hardware.conf issue, and spent a couple of days fiddling with the settings for my remote... I've fixed part of the problem, but still no luck. For some reason, it seems that my lircd.conf is not being loaded--- I have it both in /etc and /etc/lirc, (just covering bases), so location shouldn't be an issue, and the file worked previously, but irw returns nothing, and irreccord tells me it can't init the hardware. Mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 still returns normal data, though.

What should my next move be?

Thanks

What driver are you using?

As to drivers:

cat /var/log/syslog | grep lirc produces the following:

Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transciever and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC v0.26
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <lirc@rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter <martin_a_blatter@yahoo.com>
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_mceusb2[2]: SMK eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb3:2
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: usbcore: registered new driver lirc_mceusb2
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_mceusb2[2]: usb remote disconnected
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
Aug 23 22:26:59 box kernel: lirc_mceusb2[3]: SMK eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb3:3


As far as I know, this seems correct.

I realize the transition to Schedules Direct is playing havoc with everyone's time... just bumping the thread to keep it current... any ideas out there?

Bump #2...

Edit: Misread your problem....I need to not post after staying up all night upgrading my computer....haha. This may come into play once you get your remote working but channels don't change....lol.

I just ran through an upgrade to R5F1 myself last night and had to battle my remote again....

My main thing seemed to be making sure the change-channel-script.pl file referenced the correct remote, then I had to change the system command from using "rc" to "irsend"....I know that was a work around, but hey - it worked.

To test out if that will work for you find out what your remote name is, then run


Also, I changed the ENTER command at the end of the script to use the "ok/select" button from my remote

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Just changed the DEVICE line in the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf from


and the remote worked fine.[/code]

Little premature. Navigating through the menu and the output of irw work fine, but when I get to watch a recording or live tv, the guide button doesn't bring up the guide and nothing pops up when I use the channel or volume keys.

Edit: the guide pops up when I hit the 'm' button on the keyboard.

This seems to point to a problem with your ~/.mythtv/lircrc .
Have you checked that your button names in there match with those in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf ?

Bruce S.

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Well the buttons 'work'. I can pause rewind fast forward and all that jazz. But none of the on screen stuff pops up.

When using irw, did those ones you having problems with currently, return with the correct button name?


If those buttons labels have gotten out of sync between the two files, lirc wouldn't be able to emulate that particular key.

Bruce S.

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Yeah, the buttons are fine in irw. They do what they are supposed to when watching tv or recording, the on screen display stuff just doesn't come up.

Ok, managed to get the guide button to pop up the guide. I copied the old, working /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc to the new hard drive in the same spot. Still no on screen recording positions though...