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martingehrke
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 Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:32 pm |
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If you are trying to get your silver remote to work using this howto and installed R5A16 make sure you
apt-get remove lirc and then do this howto.
this is because R5A16 installs lirc-0.7.1
you need 0.7.0
If you don't, irw will return nothing.
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thegleek
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:44 am |
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martingehrke wrote: If you are trying to get your silver remote to work using this howto and installed R5A16 make sure you
apt-get remove lirc and then do this howto.
this is because R5A16 installs lirc-0.7.1
you need 0.7.0
If you don't, irw will return nothing.
yup. but actually theres no need to 'apt-get remove lirc', cuz following
the instructions here works just fine, that is if you DO as they say by
downloading v0.7.0 and the patch + conf file... yay!
now i gotta go back thru this thread to find out what conf file works best
with the new silver remote for the pvr250...
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martingehrke
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:11 am |
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I followed the intructions in the howto but it did not get the remote to work until i apt-get remove'ed lirc, then did all the intructions over again.
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DrewCS
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:45 pm |
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I followed this guide to the T and got no errors on any of the steps, I even get output from irw, but I can not get the remote to work in mythtv. I even tried restarting gdm, no luck. I have been working at this for 3 days now. Please someone help!!!!!!!
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shplad
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:49 am |
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Okay, add me to the list of hopefuls. You may have seen my posts
elsewhere about this, but I thought it would be relevant to add my data to
the list of simillar situatons.
R5A12
PVR-150
Followed robert.pdx's HOWTO exactly.
Remote works perfectly with irw-all keypresses work and are correct.
MythTV: No keypresses acknowledged at all.
shplad
DrewCS wrote: I followed this guide to the T and got no errors on any of the steps, I even get output from irw, but I can not get the remote to work in mythtv. I even tried restarting gdm, no luck. I have been working at this for 3 days now. Please someone help!!!!!!!
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Last edited by shplad on Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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robert.pdx
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:18 pm |
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If I'm reading the changelogs right, A12 comes with Myth 0.17, where A15 comes with 0.18.
I don't know if there are signficant changes or not that would affect getting lirc to work using these instructions. The howto was written assuming R5A15.1.
Suggestions (you may have already tried):
1. make sure there is no other version of lircd ("whereis lircd")
2. make sure the commands in your lircd.conf matches up with the lircrc file
3. make sure lircd is running ("ps -ax | grep lircd")
4. start mythfrontend in an xterm window (as user mythtv), try some keypresses, then exit. you may get some error info there.
Did any of you A12 users try this and get it to work?
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aaronb
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:10 pm |
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I had similar experience to the posts above. I followed this guide exactly, got output in irw, but the remote still did not work in myth. I have no idea why this works, but here is what I did to get it working: I restart gdm, run lircd, restart gdm again, and then the remote works. I have to do this whenever I reboot. I don't know why it works, and ideally I wouldn't have to do it every time (though I probably only reboot every couple of weeks or so), but as long as it works I am happy.
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Willo
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:02 am |
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Thanks you Ralph! I've been fighting with this for three days. This is what did the trick for me.
Quote: While tuner cards are detected, the modules may not be loaded. This is true for ivtv based cards. To work around, when the system first boots to X: <CTRL><ALT><F1> Log in as root.
Code:
modprobe ivtv
echo ivtv >> /etc/modules
reboot
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Dyn0
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:13 pm |
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Not that this helps those struggling, but I followed the instructions very carefully and it worked first time for me (PVR-350 + silver remote).
Excellent work Rob 
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JayRCz
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:50 pm |
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I followed the instructions to the letter and everything was looking good.
ls -l /dev/lir* returned:
/dev/lirc
/dev/lirc0
/dev/lircd
/dev/lircmd
I couldn't get any response from irw. I shutdown and checked the IR connection to my card and started my computer again. This time ls -l /dev/lir* returns:
/dev/lirc0
/dev/lircd
When I try irw, it crashes lircd because it's looking for /dev/lirc which isn't there. If I restart lircd using lircd -d /dev/lircd0, irw no longer crashes it, but I still don't get a response from the remote. I am using debian w/kernel 2.6.12. I can give more information if needed. Anyone have any ideas? I'm fresh out.
Thanks in advance for any help
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JayRCz
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:06 pm |
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I don't know what happend, but I checked it again right after I posted and it work perfectly. I guess my post pressured it to work. hahahaha. it is a little sensitve though. Is there anyway to make it a tad less sensitive?
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Willo
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:10 am |
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This is driving me nuts....Well it worked for a few days and I'm now back in the deep end of the pool again, but this time it's a bit different.
The remote now works about every 15 seconds for 5 - 7 key presses. I'm holding the up arrow and get movement...then it stops...then it starts...then it stopped. I'm not seeing any error messages in my logs. Does this mean the card is bad?
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parkinpants
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 4:25 am |
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Hi,
I am using a PVR 350 on a VIA EPIA MII system running Knoppmyth R5A16. I have the remote at the top of this site. I followed each step of the guide. I could not get IRW working after reboot but it still worked on mythfrontend. I didn't use dos2unix! but dos2unix is no longer necessary with the amended guide.
I did also have a problem where the remote only works in X and not in other applications. So, for e.g., when I go to watch a video, mplayer would not operate via remote. I solved this with a clean install and suspect it was caused by fiddling around, i.e. following guides to get PVR-350 tv-out to work.
My remaining unsolved problem is that the remote sometimes stops working when I exit the frontend and then restart it later.
Any ideas?
Last edited by parkinpants on Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:34 pm, edited 6 times in total.
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robert.pdx
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:17 am |
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Thanks for the tip. You never know if someone is going to grab that in a Windows or Unix environment.
One clarification though - you're referring to lircrc, not lircd.
I've edited the instructions so that you can just wget a version of lircrc right to your MythBox and so avoid the Dos/Unix formatting issue.
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Willo
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:08 pm |
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I'm still having some strange issues with lirc. I followed all the suggestions of this post and couldn't get my remote to work. Last night I just grabbed the remote to see and suddely it's working! Everything including xine mappings seem to be close to what I was expecting. I then rebooted the machine and no lirc again. I get one or two key presses to work then nothing. It appears that if the machine is up for a while, the remote works....reboot kills it. Anyone have any ideas?
here's a little more info from my /var/log/licrd log
Quote: Aug 18 02:15:48 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 02:16:03 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Aug 18 02:16:09 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 02:18:23 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Aug 18 02:18:38 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 02:18:45 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Aug 18 02:18:45 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 02:18:56 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Aug 18 02:18:56 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 11:33:13 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 11:33:13 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: caught signal
Aug 18 11:35:00 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: lircd(hauppauge) ready
Aug 18 11:35:01 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Aug 18 11:35:51 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Aug 18 14:41:22 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: removed client
Aug 18 14:41:33 mythtv lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
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