Hmmm, the thread seems to have drifted onto the 2005 remote, I'm trying to set up the older 2004 style remote...
With Davids clues, I've built the lirc 0.7.1 lirc_mceusb module, and copied the lirc.conf to /etc/lirc/ and the .lircrc to the two dirs whose names escape me. When I run irw, it all seems to be working, the red led on the receiver flashes, and all of the buttons are shown on the screen when I press the buttons on the remote... :) I've switched to the i686 version of MythTV, which should have built in native lirc support... However, nothing happens in Myth when I press buttons on the remote... :( Any ideas? Lee Also, I'm running KnoppMyth, how do I get it to autostart LIRC? > For the new style remote I had to download a new driver, which is not > yet part of the lirc distribution. Written by Martin Blatter the lirc > driver for the new style remote can be downloaded at > http://blatter.com/mceusb/. There's a tarball of the driver, an > example lircrc file for Myth, and some installation instructions. > Actually I think he has three different versions of his driver there. > I just downloaded the newest one. > > To use that new driver you'll need to build lirc 0.7.0 from source > (0.7.1 didn't work very well for me). Just download the lirc source > tarball and extract it (if you haven't already), then extract the > tarball from Martin Blatter on top of it. Then configure, build, and > install lirc as I described in the previous post. > > With the combination of kernel 2.6.11.7, lirc 0.7.0, and Martin > Blatter's driver, the new style remote seems to work quit reliably. > > - David > > On May 1, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Nathan Whittacre wrote: > >> So you got the new style remote working with lirc? Could you share >> some insight on what you did to get it to work. I am using kernel >> version 2.6.11.8 and lirc 0.7.0 and can't get it to work. It >> recognizes the remote, but I can't get any data from it. I've also >> tried lirc 0.7.1. >> >> Thanks, >> Nathan >> >> David Sims wrote: >> >>> On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Lee wrote: >>> >>>> Having just got my new MythTV install running nicely, I'd like to >>>> integrate my (old style) Windows MCE remote into the set up. I've >>>> googled for ages and there are lot's of people that seem to have got >>>> it working (include Jarod), but I can't find any how-to's or crib >>>> sheets. Being a total Linux noob, this leave me at a loss, can >>>> anyone point me in the right direction? >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> Lee >>> >>> >>> I haven't had any experience with the old style MCE remotes, but I >>> recently worked with setting up one of the new style remotes with >>> pretty good success. I'm not sure how far back you can go with lirc, >>> but I know lirc 0.7.0 and newer has a driver for the old style MCE >>> remote. If you're comfortable building and installing packages from >>> source code, it's really very easy to do with lirc. I haven't had >>> much luck getting the ATrpms.net lirc packages to work in my setup, >>> so I can't really help if you prefer to go that route. >>> >>> I didn't find any detailed how-to's on the MCE remote either, so I'll >>> describe what my brother and I did to get the new style remote >>> working. Hopefully this can get you going as well. >>> >>> I obtained the lirc 0.7.0 source from the lirc web site: >>> http://www.lirc.org >>> >>> - Extract the source tarball and then configure and build from the >>> extracted source directory like this: >>> >>> # ./configure --with-kerneldir=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build >>> --with-driver=mceusb >>> # make >>> # make install >>> >>> The install should copy the correct lircd.conf file to >>> /etc/lircd.conf. >>> >>> - You'll also want to put the following in /etc/modprobe.conf: >>> >>> alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb >>> >>> - I'm not sure if this is really required, but I saw it in some lirc >>> instructions somewhere. Create the /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules and >>> put this in it: >>> >>> KERNEL="lirc[0-9]*", NAME="lirc%n" >>> KERNEL="lirc0", SYMLINK="lirc" >>> >>> - Then make sure the usb receiver is plugged in and load the lirc >>> modules: >>> >>> # modprobe lirc_mceusb >>> >>> - Try out lircd and irw to see if it works: >>> >>> # lircd -n & >>> # irw >>> >>> You should see a message printed indicating that lircd accepted a >>> >>> new client connection. Then if you press buttons on the remote you >>> should see messages indicating which buttons are being pressed. If >>> that doesn't work, you may need to reboot. If you reboot with the >>> usb receiver plugged in, the lirc modules should automatically load >>> which you can verify with the lsmod command: >>> >>> # lsmod | grep lirc >>> lirc_mceusb 10884 1 >>> lirc_dev 13388 1 lirc_mceusb >>> >>> then try the lircd and irw commands again. >>> >>> One last thing to note. I'm not sure if this is due to the driver >>> for the new style MCE remote, lirc, the kernel, or my own >>> incompetence, but we couldn't get lirc working correctly with version >>> 0.7.1 of lirc or the 2.6.10-1.770 kernel from ATrpms. We had to >>> use lirc 0.7.0 and kernel version 2.6.11.7 built from source. >>> >>> Hope that helps, >>> David >>> >>> _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
