actually yes. Mine are also now in /etc/lircd.conf and /etc/lircrc. I'm certain when I looked before they were in /etc/lirc but I am no longer sure of the context.

In any event, for custom lircrc and lircd.conf files you should create a directory called ~/remotes (/home/mythtv/remotes). In there create a directory called say "abi_remotes" and then put your lircrc and lircd.conf there. In the Service Menu you can then choose your custom remote.

If it helps, I've documented much of this in http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/ ... tomization

This will help tremendously. Thanks.

Thanks especially for taking on the thankless job of documenting this.

Abbygirl

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Abby

After my upgrade to 7.2 I had to copy the lircd.conf and lircrc to /etc/lirc in order to get my remote to work.

@ozdemon just an FYI keyboard commands don't "learn" well because of the nature of a keyboard it sends multiple commands with each press. a down an on and an up. I have struggled with 3 different IR learning remotes and just gave up on it.

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Ouch! Did the 3 include a Harmony?

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I'm not really sure what you mean by this. I certainly have 3 harmony remotes working fine on two different types of receivers. ir-keytable does often send more than one key press plus an up event but these are easily filtered with lircrc.

Did you mean ir-record functionality?

Not to hijacked the thread but yes record with an Ir keyboard I found the stream so much easier to learn.

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I finally had a Saturday to work on this. Still no joy in mudville.

ir-keytable shows proper output and irw sees that I'm pressing keys on the remote. But myth is *not* using the keys. Absolutely no idea why. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

Arrows keys continue to work fine. The menu, exit, stop, ffw, rwd, etc. do not work whatsoever.

# ir-keytable -t
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event4) with:
Driver streamzap, table rc-streamzap
Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC other
Enabled protocols: LIRC
Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 33 ms

# ps -ef | grep lirc
root 916 913 0 14:29 ? 00:00:00 runsv lircd
root 5348 5308 0 14:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lircd -r -n -d /dev/lirc0 --output /var/run/lirc/lircd

# irw (with key presses)
00000000000028d2 02 OK Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d2 00 OK_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d0 00 UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d0 01 UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d0 00 UP_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d6 00 EXIT Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d6 01 EXIT Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d6 02 EXIT Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d6 00 EXIT_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d5 00 MENU Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d5 01 MENU Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d5 00 MENU_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d8 00 PAUSE Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d8 01 PAUSE Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d8 00 PAUSE_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d9 00 STOP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d9 01 STOP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028d9 00 STOP_UP Streamzap_PC_Remote
00000000000028cf 00 VOL_DOWN Streamzap_PC_Remote

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Abby

Abigail, did you try a fresh install of 7.2? As I said previously, my streamzap combo worked out of the box after I had selected it in the Linhes menu and rebooted.

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I'd prefer not to re-install everything. I'm sure this is a simple fix that I (we?) arre alll missing. Can you send me your /etc/systemconfig file so I can compare?
thanaks, Abs

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Abby

I only used the streamzap combo as an interim measure until I could get my harmony remote working. I have since used an IR keyboard to map all necessary keys to the Harmony and selected "no remote" in the Linhes menu, so I would think that any file I sent you would be likely to cause you more harm (which you don't need at the moment).

BTW, it takes me less than 20 minutes to do a fresh install.

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If irw is working for your keys then you have success up through lircd. The most likely culprit is a matching lircrc file. The output of irw does need to match the entries in your lircrc.

I'm presuming you mean the "STOP", "EXIT", "LEFT", "RIGHT", etc. have to match up. They do. Enclosed is a snippet from the /etc/lircrc file which is symlinked to /etc/lirc/lircrc and /home/mythtv/.lircrc. What's particularly strange is that LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN work but OK, MENU, and the others do not.

Note that when I use the keyboard all the "config" equivalents work just fine.


begin
prog = mythtv
button = LEFT
# navigates, or skips back during playback or live tv.
config = Left
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = OK
config = Return
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = RIGHT
# navigates, or skips forwards during playback or live tv.
config = Right
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = DOWN
repeat = 3
config = Down
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = MENU
config = m
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = EXIT
config = Esc
end

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Abby

With the search oddities the forums have had since the switch over it may be hard to find, but a while back I did a write up on how the LIRC files go together and which names have to match which other names. One of the things I noticed along the way is that a lot of the different LIRC files for different remotes were inconsistent, with no glabal standard for button names, so that getting a working set often meant going through the files side by side and making them match up.

Aha! Found it! http://forum.linhes.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15551 Don't know if this will help or not...

yes. that is what I mean.

You can also test the output of lircrc using "ircat mythtv". This can run while mythtv is running. It will show the translated output from lircrc. In your case for example "OK" should output "Return".

If you get the arrow keys being output from ircat then you are definitely going through lircrc (maybe just not the one you expected). If nothing then perhaps something like irxevent is running?

If you get all of your keys coming out properly with ircat then the only other culprit would be the key bindings.