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Re: inputlirc: zeroconf LIRC daemon using Linux input event devices

by dishbert :: Rate this Message:

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Thanks Yan, I gave irexec a try, but still nothing, I just tried the basics in lircd using the examples in the link, the  rest is a little over my head at this point.  In the meantime, I installed a Hauppage  Nexus S that had been lying around, and I'm hoping for an easier time setting up it's remote.  It has some working examples of .conf files available.  Thanks for your help, don't be surprised to see me back here soon with other issues.  Mythtv is a great program, but almost useless if you can't get the remote to work.

Yan Seiner wrote:
dishbert wrote:
> Thanks for the great little app, I found it with Synaptic from Ubuntu 8.04
> when I was just about to pull my hair out trying to get lirc to work with
> Mythtv.  At last irw and input-events will work for me, (though not
> irrecord) but I'm not quite there yet.
>
> I'm trying to get a Twinhan DVB remote to work properly. It shows up fine:
>
> chris@PC-Linux:~$ lsusb
> ...
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 6253:0100 TwinHan Technology Co., Ltd Ir reciver f.
> remote control
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> and here:
>
> /dev/input/event2
>   bustype : BUS_USB
>   vendor  : 0x6253
>   product : 0x100
>   version : 272
>   name    : "Twinhan Tech Remote Control"
>   phys    : "usb-0000:00:10.0-1/input0"
>   uniq    : "1111111"
>   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP
>
> /dev/input/event3
>   bustype : BUS_USB
>   vendor  : 0x6253
>   product : 0x100
>   version : 272
>   name    : "Twinhan Tech Remote Control"
>   phys    : "usb-0000:00:10.0-1/input1"
>   uniq    : "1111111"
>   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_REL EV_MSC
>
> And some keys have worked fine from the begining with no adjustment
> whatever:  Enter, Exit, the number keys etc.  But the main keys I need to
> control Myth are Guide and the up and down arrow keys, and I can't make them
> work for the life of me.
>
> irw shows them like this when I press Guide, Up, Down: (the "e" is from the
> "Guide" keypress)
>
> e68 0 KEY_PAGEUP event2
> ^[[5~6d 0 KEY_PAGEDOWN event2
> ^[[6~
>
> And input-event like this:
>
> 11:26:16.594274: EV_MSC code=4 value=458760
> 11:26:16.594291: EV_KEY KEY_E pressed
> 11:26:16.594294: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
> e11:26:16.602269: EV_MSC code=4 value=458760
> 11:26:16.602284: EV_KEY KEY_E released
> 11:26:16.602286: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
>
> 11:26:18.673984: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
> 11:26:18.785973: EV_MSC code=4 value=458827
> 11:26:18.785990: EV_KEY KEY_PAGEUP pressed
> 11:26:18.785993: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
> ^[[5~11:26:18.793972: EV_MSC code=4 value=458827
> 11:26:18.793988: EV_KEY KEY_PAGEUP released
> 11:26:18.793990: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
>
> 11:26:19.569858: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
> 11:26:19.737844: EV_MSC code=4 value=458830
> 11:26:19.737860: EV_KEY KEY_PAGEDOWN pressed
> 11:26:19.737862: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
> ^[[6~11:26:19.753838: EV_MSC code=4 value=458830
> 11:26:19.753853: EV_KEY KEY_PAGEDOWN released
> 11:26:19.753856: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
>
> But when I go to edit my lircrc file, I can only get certain keys to work to
> open the guide, and "Guide" is not one of them.  If I map the Myth command
> "m" to the "Stop" button or the "Up" keys, which irw says are KEY_TAB and
> KEY_HOME, it works fine.  But if I map it to the "Guide" button, which
> input-events says is KEY_E(or to e), it doesn't work and that key does what
> it always did, which is to bring up the Channel Editor.  Remapping the Up
> and Down keys does not stop them from performing the PageUp and PageDown
> functions either
>
> I've stripped my lircrc down to nothing to try to diagnose this, but no joy
> yet.  When I start mythfrontend I can see it pointing the correct lircrc
> file.
>
> I can't understand why changes to that file work for some keys and not
> others.
>  

See if this discussion helps.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=497B3A7A.7060801%40seiner.com&forum_name=lirc-list

--Yan

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