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Author:  brplut40 [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  remote not working in myth

I have a tira2 which i got lirc to work with correctly. I have verified by using irw which shows the associated key presses. I have setup a basic lircrc file for moving around myth. here is the lircd.conf file

Code:
# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.8.1(tira) on Sun Apr 15 18:08:47 2007
#
# contributed by
#
# brand:                       rem
# model no. of remote control:
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#

begin remote

  name  rem.conf
  bits           32
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  one             0     0
  zero            0     0
  pre_data_bits   8
  pre_data       0x0
  post_data_bits  24
  post_data      0xF5D500
  gap          207943
  min_repeat      11
  toggle_bit      0


      begin codes
          right_arrow              0x89A67FF7
          left_arrow               0x89267F77
          up_arrow                 0x0B2EFD7F
          down_arrow               0x0B8EFDDF
          select                   0x030CF55D
          play                     0x8BA67DF7
          pause                    0x8B2E7D7F
          fwd                      0x8B0E7D5F
          rew                      0x8B8E7DDF
      end codes

end remote


and the associated lircrc file

Code:
begin
        prog = mythtv
        button = right_arrow
        config = Right
end

begin
        prog = mythtv
        button = left_arrow
        config = Left
end

begin
        prog = mythtv
        button = up_arrow
        config = Up
end

begin
        prog = mythtv
        button = down_arrow
        config = Down
end

begin
        prog = mythtv
        button = select
        config = Return
end


Can anyone tell me why i cannot get navigation within myth using the remote with this setup? What i am trying to accomplish right now is using the remote to highlight and select menus. I will add more advance features once I have this down.

Author:  slowtolearn [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:30 pm ]
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Assuming the codes in the lircd.conf file are correct, I would guess the lircrc file is A) not located in /home/mythtv/.mythtv or B) not readable by the mythtv user. The lircrc file itself looks fine to me.

Author:  brplut40 [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:02 pm ]
Post subject: 

location of lircrc is /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc with a symlink from /home/mythtv/lircrc -> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc

The permissions on lircrc are 664 and the owner is mythtv

Author:  slowtolearn [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:19 pm ]
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brplut40 wrote:
location of lircrc is /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc with a symlink from /home/mythtv/lircrc -> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
Hmmm, on my R5D1 + .20 installs I have /home/mythtv/.lircrc (note the period) linked to /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc.

Are you running MythTV as root?

brplut40 wrote:
The permissions on lircrc are 664 and the owner is mythtv
That should suffice.

Silly question: Have you restarted lircd since creating/changing the lirc files?

I haven't used irw myself, I use irrecord to capture the key press codes. Do you get the same codes with irrecord?

Author:  brplut40 [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:58 pm ]
Post subject: 

i am running the same knoppmyth version with the myth upgrade as well. The links are the same as yours, i mistyped and it is /home/mythtv/.lircrc that is linked. i have restarted lircd and rebooted the entire machine after changing the config files. and i did us irrecord to create the lircd.conf file.

Author:  slowtolearn [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:16 am ]
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brplut40 wrote:
i am running the same knoppmyth version with the myth upgrade as well. The links are the same as yours, i mistyped and it is /home/mythtv/.lircrc that is linked. i have restarted lircd and rebooted the entire machine after changing the config files. and i did us irrecord to create the lircd.conf file.
Well, you've got me stumped, only thing I can think of is that the lircrc file is not in the correct place. Are you running MythTV as a user other than mythtv?

EDIT: Have you verified that lircd is in fact running, and that your DEVICE= and MODULES= directives in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf are correct? /EDIT

Author:  brplut40 [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:01 am ]
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there is the fun part. i downloaded and installed lirc from source. I did the setup script, make, make install and everything worked ok. I have no /etc/lirc directory now. Which means i have no hardware.conf file located in /etc/lirc This may be the cause of some of my problems. I am hesitant to remove lirc, as i have it up and working. maybe you can explain how to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of lirc. Thanks for the help

Author:  slowtolearn [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:49 pm ]
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brplut40 wrote:
there is the fun part. i downloaded and installed lirc from source.
Well, that would have been nice to know right up front :?

brplut40 wrote:
I did the setup script, make, make install and everything worked ok. I have no /etc/lirc directory now. Which means i have no hardware.conf file located in /etc/lirc This may be the cause of some of my problems. I am hesitant to remove lirc, as i have it up and working. maybe you can explain how to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of lirc.
I haven't the foggiest, short of removing it all by hand.

I would recommend using the setup.sh that came with the lirc package to configure it. Then take a look through the config.log and make sure your driver and device file are configured properly, and then run make && make install.

Author:  brplut40 [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:40 pm ]
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I got it to work. I don't know what I was doing wrong but it works now. I restarted lircd, restarted the frontend, and it worked. Thanks for all the help, now I am of to get my remote to do all my work for me :D :D

Author:  cecil [ Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:02 pm ]
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Are the lircd.conf and lircrc complete? What lirc module is being used? Post as much detail as possible so this remote can work out the box in future releases...

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