Hi,

Just to say that i make the move to R5F1. The upgrade was smooth without any problem. Thanks Cecil and team. Great work again!

But i was also waiting this new release to activate my remote control. I'm a Linux newbie and i don't know where to start. As a good member of this forum a made a lot of reading but i'm totally screwed up with all the info (some are also very old).

-Do i need the sources?
-Do i need to recompile LIRC?
-Do i need to uninstall and install the CVS of LIRC?
-Do i need a special patch for this remote?
-Can someone with this remote write me the receipe with a detailed code?

Thanks for helping
Bob

What type of remote do you have?

A quick search pulled this up, does it help? http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... mon+remote

Hi Dale and slowtolearn,

My case is the Silverstone GD01-MX. Nice Case. There is no driver yet for the LCD but i know the remote should work.

The remote control is:
Hardware = Soundgraph iMON PAD IR/VFD imon_pad

I tried the code from your quick search. I have almost the same LSMOD output but i have lirc_i2c too. How to remove unecessary module?



I'm curently at the job so i will try this config tonight. I will give you some feedback.

Thanks
Bob

I still have problems

The remote is not working. Look at this result in dmesg and see if there is some error.




EDIT: MAke some progress. With this command i can see that the remote is working. But no reaction in mythtv.



Thanks
Bob

Bob,

I have the same problem as you. I have installed and it seems to work.

I can run



and then it shows me the codes as I press keys on the imon pad remote. But I can't seem to get the front end to pick it up...

Have you succeeded yet? And if so, what did you do?

I know I can't be far off - if the remote is working, the receiver can collect and interpret the codes then what's left to do?

must only be ensuring that the codes get translated against the lircd.conf file and that the commands then get used by the front end...

But this is where I'm stuck.

If anyone out there has any ideas on how to get my shiny new R5F1 install to pick up the signals then I'd be grateful.

for info - another post: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13532&highlight=imon+remote

claimed that all he had to do was to adjust the /etc/hardware.conf file... but I don't seem to have one... has it been removed in R5F1?

Any help is gratefully received....

thanks,

bag.

In theory, once irw/irrecord shows that the lirc device is receiving signals, all that should be required is configuring lircd.conf and an lircrc file. See http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LIRCHowTo , towards the bottom where it says

I haven't installed R5F1 so I'm not sure. If you compile lirc from source I think you lose the original contents of /etc/lirc. This post doesn't reveal a solution, but will give you ideas on what to look at http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14944

Thanks Slowtolearn... I'm almost there.

I can now use the remote - but the lircrc file is not perfect - needs work.

So, here's what I did.

From this post -

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13532&highlight=imon+remote

i gleaned that the hardware.conf file needed looking at. Whilst I had downloaded and installed from source, the hardware.conf file was in:

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf and not in /etc/hardware.conf as suggested in that post.

Once I'd found it and updated it I felt much better.

That and a lircrc file downloaded from here: http://jonobacon.org/files/mythtv/lircrc

and put in the right place, a reboot later and it seems to work. Straight into the mythTV front end and the remote works for some of the commands. I'll work on it later and see if I can't get it updated a bit... Don't count on it being too soon though - i need some beauty sleep and there are other things to solve yet - such as the VFD issue...

Anyway - many many thanks for pointing me in the right direction - i really appreciate it.

Thanks.

Bag.

They usually do on the first few go-arounds

No problem, good luck with it.

Hi,

Thanks for your input.

I'm at the same step then you. I was using a wrong lircrc file. when i put the one from your link and reboot, some function of the remote start working.

For now, we have to use a better lircr. After we can ask Cecil to include these setting in the next knoppmyth release to automate the imon remote installation.

If you have a good lircr file to share with us please post it here.

For the VFD (check if it's a reel VFD and not a LCD), i spend a lot of time to figure out but there is no driver for the LCD imon. Nothing to do for now . You can find driver for the VFD imon on the Venky.

Thanks again to Slowtolearn and Bag
Bob

Bob and bag, have you tried the config files posted here? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m ... ers/144252

Slowtolearn - thanks for that. Looks promising... the main problem with the remote is the 'joystick' thing that could give up/down/left/right or mouse control... It seems to cause some problems...

Two things...

Once I download it - how do i patch it with the patch file there? I'm still a newbie on this - so could do with some guidance on the commands to use to patch the file.

Secondly, I take it that for the files available on that page I need to replace them all in my system...?? Can you confirm?

Thanks.

Bag.

I would start with just the lircd.conf and lircrc files and see if you get the reaction you want. You have to replace the existing ones on your system (back up the originals first!)

Note that the post I referenced is almost 2 years old, so the code changes may already be in your system. BTW, I gave up on the IR receiver/iMON remote that came with my LC10M because the remote was very slow and often missed key presses. The serial receivers at irblaster.info coupled with Harmony remotes are well worth the money, IMHO.

slowtolearn - thanks.

Back to where i was previously - it works, but of a fashion. i'll stop there for the moment - although I'd really like to get the thing working. It's so nice to have an internal IR receiver built next to the VFD - it's what i paid the money for... so I'll keep trawling for info on how to get the 'joystick' pad thing working...

I might try to have a play around with the lircrc file and see if I can't improve it a little - try to get it working a bit better. I did download a preconfigured file that I completed on the web at: http://lircconfig.commandir.com/ but it didn't seem to work as well... Can't work out why...

I'll have a trawl around and see if there's info about what can and can't be done, whether several buttons can have the same action etc etc...

** just remembered - that patch file on the link you left me (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/144252

- it talks about getting the whole remote working perfectly. One last thing then - how do I patch the file I downloaded with the patch? I'll give that a go and let you know how I get on...

many thanks for your help.

Mark.

I honestly don't know, I'm quite the amateur when it comes to patching files. You would need the C code from that post, then use something along the lines of to patch the code, then compile lirc as noted in the Wiki.

Again, I'm not using this configuration so it's simply a best-guess...