Using a wintv-nova-t DVB card with the remote (type a415) plugged in

Ive tried running lirc-reconfig.sh and choosing the c. Silver remote (A415-HPG)

but its not working as expected.

I seem to be suffering the same problems as i expereinced when i installed r5a16 18 months ago, only the arrow and numeric keys work

Back then the solution was a bespoke file and configuring lircd to use /dev/input/eventX where X is in range 0-4

Ive tried a similar approach this time without success.

Anyone else cracked this nut, ive done a search but not found the solution yet for the NOVA-t and r5e50?

Ive tried the config file i used to use in r5a16 but its not working.
do i need to use irw to roll a new file ?

Give the "Dog Bone" (last option) remote a try from the lircrc script.

Did this work for you for this remote and card combination?
Ive just tried and it did not work for me -

I have a PVR-150, was staking a stab in the dark.

Th Lirc part of this post should help.
The Nova-T apparently uses a different system than the PVRx50 series.

Bruce S.

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16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

You can try the config-file in my Nova-S wiki (see link below) - there is also the command-line for irrecord to make your own file.

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Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus PCI HowTo:
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... SPlusHowTo

Ok, im starting to appreciate here the problem is not just the a415 remote on R5e50
its the a415 remote using the Nova-t DVB card on r5e50


Ive tried just about everything suggested above including a rebuild of
lirc and rolling my own lircd.conf file using irrecord


which looks like this
# 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-CVS-pvr150(dev/input) on Sun Mar 11 18:25:53 2007
#
# contributed by
#
# brand: zzz
# model no. of remote control:
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#

begin remote

name a415
bits 32
eps 30
aeps 100

one 0 0
zero 0 0
gap 132969
toggle_bit 0



begin codes
Power 0x0074
Go 0x0161
TV 0x0179
Videos 0x0189
Music 0x0188
Pictures 0x016F
Guide 0x016D
Radio 0x0181
UP 0x0067
LEFT 0x0069
RIGHT 0x006A
DOWN 0x006C
OK 0x001C
Back-Exit 0x00AE
Menu 0x008B
Prev-Channel 0x019C
Mute 0x0071
Volume-UP 0x0073
Volume-DOWN 0x0072
Channel-UP 0x0192
Channel-DOWN 0x0193
Record 0x00A7
Stop 0x0080
Rewind 0x00A8
Forward 0x00D0
Play 0x00CF
Previous 0x00A5
Next 0x00A3
Pause 0x0077
1 0x0002
2 0x0003
3 0x0004
4 0x0005
5 0x0006
6 0x0007
7 0x0008
8 0x0009
9 0x000A
0 0x000B
star 0x0184
hash 0x0172
red 0x018E
green 0x018F
yellow 0x0190
blue 0x0191
end codes

end remote

which does not seems to work.

I'm thinking the nova-t DVB seems a fairly popular card in the uk so surely someone must have crossed this problem before, but then again i could have done something completely stupid so who knows!



root@decivo2:/etc/lirc# cat hardware.conf
# /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="dev/input"
# If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0
# udev uses /dev/lirc0 will be automatically used instead
MODULES="lirc_dev"
DEVICE="/dev/input/event2"
LIRCD_CONF="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf"


Im still just getting the cursor keys an 0-9 buttons working - no back-exit guide etc buttons

attempting to test the remote with irw yields nothing.

its so frustrating

Just to make sure, are you sure that /dev/input/event2 is the correct one. Do the entries in your /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc match up to your lircd.conf? For instance, is there an entry for "RIGHT" (with the exactly the same spelling and capitalization) in your lircrc file?

Bruce S.

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Updated 2019/10/26: AthlonII X2 265 Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

think its event2 because

root@decivo2:/etc/init.d# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=004a
N: Name="PS/2 Logitech Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0001 Vendor=0070 Product=9002 Version=0001
N: Name="cx88 IR (Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T"
P: Phys=pci-0000:02:00.0/ir0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=100fc312 214a802 0 0 0 0 18000 41a8 4801 9e1680 0 0 10000ffc



Ironically RIGHT works ok

here is an extract from the lircrc

# MythTV LIRC config file for the gray Hauppauge remote
# Sticker on the inside of battery compartment
# A415-HPG
# 1004 032400
#
# /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
#
#
### RESET THE MYTH BOX or REBOOT IT
# 1 click is reset front end, 2 clicks is reboot
#
begin
prog = irexec
button = Power
config = /home/mythtv/scripts/mypower.sh &
end
#
### MYTHTV SETTINGS FOR IT'S CONTROL
#
# Program Guide
begin
prog = mythtv
button = green
config = F2
end
#
# TV Recording Playback
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Videos
config = F3
end
#
# Live TV
begin
prog = mythtv
button = TV
config = F4
end
#
# MythWeather
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Go
config = F7
end
#
# MythGame
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Green
config = F5
end
#
# MythMusic
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Music
button = Music
config = F6
end
#
# Previous Channel
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Prev-Channel
config = H
end
#
# Channel Up
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Channel-UP
repeat = 3
config = Up
end

# Channel Down
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Channel-DOWN
repeat = 3
config = Down
end

# OK/Select
begin
prog = mythtv
button = OK
config = Space
end

# Play
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Play
config = Return
end

# Stop
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Stop
config = Esc
end

# Escape/Exit/Back
begin
prog = mythtv
button = Back-Exit
config = Esc
end

etc...

I think they are all ok in there but the crucial one to get working is Back-Exit which is identical in both files.

I finally got this working using a hybrid file partly from my old box and partly from a new recording



no idea why the old file or the new recording did not work but the above merged version seems to work fine...

I hope this is of some use to someone as it wasted more than a few hours messing about to get this working.