PVR-500 with SMK Ehome receiver and RC6 remote (MCE-remote?), mceusb2 driver

[Henning Larsen]

Hi, I've now tried getting this remote to work for two days without any luck..

The remote seems to be a Hauppauge-version of the MCE-remote, marked "RC6" on the back.
The receiver is an usb dongle, marked SMK on the back, recognized as an "SMK eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb2:2"

I'm starting lircd as following:
lircd --device=/dev/lirc0

("cat /dev/lirc0" outputs binary data when pressing buttons on the remote)

"irw" outputs nothing, just hangs silent on the console.

"irrecord --device=/dev/lirc0 /etc/lircd.conf" outputs the following:

<snip>
irrecord: 1
irrecord: pending pulse: 0
irrecord: 1
irrecord: pending pulse: 0
irrecord: 1
irrecord: code: 1fff
irrecord: sum: 0
irrecord: +p450
irrecord: space expected
Something went wrong. irrecord: driver supports receiving
Please try again. (8 retries left)
irrecord: no data for 10 secs, aborting

<end of output>



kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4
lircd: 0.8.1-CVS

Any help on getting this to work any further greatly appreciated :)


HenningL

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[Henning Larsen]

Hey and thanks for clearing that up.
I copied the file remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb to /etc/lircd.conf, and restarted lircd.

But still no go. I'm using mythtv, and the remote doesn't seem to work at all.

Starting mythfrontend prints "lircd-0.8.0[11192]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd" in /var/log/messages, but mythtv doesn't respond to the remote.

Any ideas what could be wrong? Possibly mythtv?
As you can see, mythtv connects to lircd, but either lircd doesnt send any data, or mythtv doesnt read any data.

"cat /dev/lircd"
returns:
"cat: /dev/lircd: No such device or address"

no errors regarding lircd in mythfrontend output.

regards, Henning



On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:02:19 +0200, Martin Blatter <mblatter@...> wrote:

> Hi
>
> irrecord does not work with MCE-ish remotes.
> Just use the supplied /etc/lircd.conf and your SMK
> remote should work fine.
>
> regards
> martin
>
> Henning Larsen schrieb:
>> Hi, I've now tried getting this remote to work for two days without any luck..
>>
>> The remote seems to be a Hauppauge-version of the MCE-remote, marked "RC6" on the back.
>> The receiver is an usb dongle, marked SMK on the back, recognized as an "SMK eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb2:2"
>>
>> I'm starting lircd as following:
>> lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
>>
>> ("cat /dev/lirc0" outputs binary data when pressing buttons on the remote)
>>
>> "irw" outputs nothing, just hangs silent on the console.
>>
>> "irrecord --device=/dev/lirc0 /etc/lircd.conf" outputs the following:
>>
>> <snip>
>> irrecord: 1
>> irrecord: pending pulse: 0
>> irrecord: 1
>> irrecord: pending pulse: 0
>> irrecord: 1
>> irrecord: code: 1fff
>> irrecord: sum: 0
>> irrecord: +p450
>> irrecord: space expected
>> Something went wrong. irrecord: driver supports receiving
>> Please try again. (8 retries left)
>> irrecord: no data for 10 secs, aborting
>>
>> <end of output>
>>
>>
>>
>> kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4
>> lircd: 0.8.1-CVS
>>
>> Any help on getting this to work any further greatly appreciated :)
>>
>>
>> HenningL
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
>> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
>> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
>>
>>
>
>
>

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