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Author:  brownbrad [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Newbie on R5E50 w/ Hauppauge 350 & A415-HPG
O.k. guys, we've been up & running for about 2 weeks now, although WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is starting to nosedive. We're able to watch/record shows, but have to use VNC or keyboard to change channels, etc. She's trying to get me to build PVR in Windoze, but I've been wanting to get going in Linux since I first heard this was possible.

I've followed (best I could) any/all advice in forums & helps, but I get nothing. I get no output from irw, nor from mod2(?). I'm not sure the blasted thing works at all, and am considering a COM-based IR receiver.

Would someone help me please?
Author:  tjc [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:43 pm ]
Post subject: 
Try:
    - Check your physical connection. Make sure the IR dongle is plugged into the tiny black socket labelled IR way at the bottom of the card, and that it's fully seated.

    - Login as root

    - Run lirc-reconfig.sh

    - Select Hauppauge and Silver (if your remote is fatter on the ends than the middle, otherwise if it's fatter in the middle it's the Grey remote.)

    - Edit the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file and make sure it says (pay special attention to the DEVICE name):
    Code:
    # /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
    #
    # Arguments which will be used when launching lircd
    LIRCD_ARGS=""

    #Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
    START_LIRCMD=false

    #Try to load appropriate kernel modules
    LOAD_MODULES=true

    # Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
    DRIVER="default"
    # If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be
    # automatically used instead
    DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
    MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_i2c"


    - Restart your lircd daemon.
    Code:
    /etc/init.d/lirc restart


    - Make sure it's running:
    Code:
    root@black2:~# pgrep -fl lirc
    2942 lirc_dev
    2945 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0


    - Make sure that the device entries show up:
    Code:
    root@black2:~# ls -al /dev/lirc*
    crw-rw---- 1 root video 61, 0 Feb 18 15:29 /dev/lirc0
    srw-rw-rw- 1 root root      0 Feb 18 15:29 /dev/lircd


    - Exit and restart your front end.


If you still have a problem check that you don't have one of the new MK5 PVR-350 cards http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CheckingLogFiles and consider upgrading to the 0.10.0 ivtv driver. http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CompileIvtv-0.10.0
Author:  tjc [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:50 pm ]
Post subject: 
BTW - Could someone with a PVR-350 double check these. They work with the PVR-250 which should be the same...
Author:  brownbrad [ Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:30 am ]
Post subject: 
tjc,

Thanks for the help. I did check/correct what I had to match your snippet. After a reboot & following the "Checking Log Files" link you sent me, I ran "grep -i lirc /var/log/*"

This is some of the output:
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:06:01 Girlfriend kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:06:01 Girlfriend kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:06:01 Girlfriend kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:06:20 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2472]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:06:24 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2472]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:08:08 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2472]: caught signal
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:08:08 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[3118]: lircd(all) ready
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:09:15 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[3118]: caught signal
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:09:16 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[3172]: lircd(all) ready
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:11:49 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[3172]: caught signal
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:11:49 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[3191]: lircd(all) ready
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:13:09 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[3191]: caught signal
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:14:12 Girlfriend kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:14:12 Girlfriend kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:14:12 Girlfriend kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:14:30 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2475]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
/var/log/syslog:Feb 27 09:14:34 Girlfriend lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2475]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd

I'm wondering 1) why it is talking about a pvr150 card &
2) I see where it says "caught signal".

What can you tell me based on this info? BTW, it *IS* the A415-HPG remote, I've checked under the batteries more than once.

Thanks,

Brad
Author:  daragh [ Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:06 pm ]
Post subject:  diagnosing problems
just a note that you can run 'irw'
Code:
irw

to make sure that the machine is registering the signals coming from the remote. Just run it and then press a few buttons on the remote, and you will see the events.
This helps enormously when you suspect it might be a battery or connection problem.
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