On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:23:30 -0500, Scot L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First I want to thank Jarod and the MythTV developers. While my initial > pass at building a MythTV system is not yet 100% the parts I do have > working are amazing. And Jarod's guide has been very helpful in getting > this far. > > First some system specs just in case this is causing some of the issues. > > Asus P5GD2 Deluxe Mother board, 3.6GHz CPU, Mad Dog FX 5500 GeForce FX > PCI video card, Hauppauge PVR-350, 2GB memory, 1TB disk space. > > Fedora Core 3 and using the ATRPMS for MythTV 0.17 following Jarod's > guide for installation. > > Basic setup required a minor dance to get the on board ethernet working > and of course to install the NVIDIA drivers for the video card. Nothing > there that could not be handled and all that seems to work as expected. > > One surprise was with the audio drivers. I did have to install the > alsa-driver package separately but the system still refuses to find the > built in audio card. However when I started up MythTV the sound works > just fine. Seems like the sound card detection tool just does not > believe the audio device is there. Leaving this for later scrutiny. > > The big problem I am having at the moment is getting the remote control > to work with MythTV. It appears that I have the "new" Hauppage remote > control, gray on top black on the bottom with the four colored buttons > along the bottom. I installed the lirc packages and can use irw to see > all the keys being pressed. > > The guide indicates that the lircrc file needed to be placed in the > ~mythtv/.mythtv directory. However I saw an error message indicating > that the .lircrc file could not be found in the ~mythtv directory. > Initially I did not seem to get any response to the remote while running > the mythfrontend. After putting a copy of .lircrc in the ~mythtv > directory there seems to be partial recognition of the remote. The OK > button seems to work as well as the mute button. Very little else seems > to work as expected.
Since irw is registering "all" the keys your press, it is not likely a problem with your lircd.conf file. Instead, it seems to be a problem with your lircrc. Just to make sure we're on the same page, your have copies of your lircrc file in the following locations: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc /home/mythtv/lircrc <====I'm not sure if that should be lircrc or .lircrc I'm just taking a stab here, but it would seem that while you are using the proper lircd.conf file, your are using the lircrc file for the "old" grey/black remote. You should be able to tell fairly easily, and it shouldn't be hard to fix. The "codes" section of your lircd.conf file should look as follows: ------------BEGIN PASTE-------------- begin codes Power 0x00000000000017BD Go 0x0000000000001FBB TV 0x000000000000179C Videos 0x0000000000001F98 Music 0x0000000000001799 Pictures 0x0000000000001F9A Guide 0x000000000000179B Radio 0x0000000000001F8C UP 0x0000000000001794 LEFT 0x0000000000001F96 RIGHT 0x0000000000001797 DOWN 0x0000000000001F95 OK 0x00000000000017A5 Back-Exit 0x0000000000001F9F Menu 0x000000000000178D Prev-Channel 0x0000000000001F92 Mute 0x000000000000178F Volume-UP 0x0000000000001F90 Volume-DOWN 0x0000000000001791 Channel-UP 0x0000000000001FA0 Channel-DOWN 0x00000000000017A1 Record 0x0000000000001FB7 Stop 0x00000000000017B6 Rewind 0x0000000000001FB2 Forward 0x00000000000017B4 Play 0x0000000000001FB5 Previous 0x00000000000017A4 Next 0x0000000000001F9E Pause 0x00000000000017B0 1 0x0000000000001F81 2 0x0000000000001782 3 0x0000000000001F83 4 0x0000000000001784 5 0x0000000000001F85 6 0x0000000000001786 7 0x0000000000001F87 8 0x0000000000001788 9 0x0000000000001F89 0 0x0000000000001780 star 0x0000000000001F8A hash 0x000000000000178E red 0x0000000000001F8B green 0x00000000000017AE yellow 0x0000000000001FB8 blue 0x00000000000017A9 end codes ----------------END PASTE-------------------- Does your lircrc file look like this? Here's a snippet from the top of the one I saw on Jarod's site: ---------------BEGIN PASTE-------------------- # Channel Up begin prog = mythtv button = CH+ repeat = 3 config = Up end # Channel Down begin prog = mythtv button = CH- repeat = 3 config = Down end # OK/Select begin prog = mythtv button = OK config = Space end # Play begin prog = mythtv button = PLAY config = Return end --------------END PASTE-------------------- Look at the "button = " part for each entry in the lircrc file. One says "button = CH+". Another "button = CH-" and so on. These entries for button need to correspond to something in your lircd.conf file. With they lircd.conf for that old grey/black remote, the lircd.conf called the channel up button on the remote "CH+". However, the lircd.conf file for the new remote calls it "Channel-UP". The old lircd.conf called channel down "CH-", while the new one calls it "Channel-DOWN". If you change the "button =" entries in your lircrc file, changing "CH+" to "Channel-UP", changing "CH-" to "Channel-DOWN" and so on, reboot the box, and test mythtv, this should fix the problem. Make sure you change any copy of lircrc that you're using. You can look at the file differences for some comparisons of the lircrc file to the old and the new remotes. lircrc file on Jarod's site (for old black/grey remote) http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/lircrc-haupgrey.txt lircd.conf file for old grey/black remote: http://lircsetup.com/lirc/blaster/files/haupgreyold.conf.txt lircd.conf for new grey/black remote: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/lircd-g3.conf.txt Please reply with whether or not this was the issue. Thanks. -Andy > > I did try going through the irrecord process to generate a new lirc.conf > file. BTW: there seems to be a buffer caching issue with that code. I > found that after entering the name of the next button and pressing enter > it would prompt to press and hold the button. But most of the time it > would immediately ask to input the next buttons name before I even had a > chance to press the button. As such the file generated had duplicates > of virtually every button with the first entry matching the previous > buttons values. Was able to work around by editing the file and I tried > my new file. The results were pretty much the same as with the original > file. > > Second issue that I have not spent as much time on yet is with the DVD > drive. Not sure if this is an issue with KDE or not. Have not used KDE > that much but would not expect it to be that much different from Gnome. > It seems like MythTV is not seeing the drive as expected. When built > the system appears to have created a /dev/dvd device but it is linked to > /dev/hda. I believe this was the result of this DVD drive being the > only IDE device in the box. Although this could be the actual problem. > Like I said I have not spent as much time on this one as the remote. > > The other minor problem at the moment is with MythWeather. When I have > tried to go in and select the location the front end seems to hang. > Have tried this three or four times now with the same result. > > Other than that the box is recording shows as expected and playing them > back just fine. I have not sorted out all the commercial skipping stuff > yet but it does appear to flag the commercials. I will tackle that once > I get the remote problem sorted out. > > Eventually the system will be moved to the family room and run headless > out there. And at some point I plan to install another tuner card. > > Any pointers to resolve the above problems would be greatly appreciated. > > Again, thanks for a great set of packages. > > -- > Scot L. Harris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Humor in the Court: > Q: ...any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial > instead of an attempted murder trial? > A: The victim lived. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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