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
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Use Martin Blatter's driver.
http://www.blatter.com/mceusb/mceusb.0.21-20050401.tar.bz2 Recompile
lirc0.7.0 after replacing the mceusb driver with this one. We have it
running on 2.6.11.7, Myth0.18, lirc0.7.0.
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