I made a clean install of R5A16 today and the remote is working perfectly after typing

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So I'd gone through this entire process step by step, and my remote still didn't work. I got output in irw, but the remote did nothing in Myth. I did a clean install and tried again, but got the same result. From all of the threads I'd read, I was sure that I had everything setup correctly, but it still didn't work. I'd pretty much become resigned to the fact that I'd have to use the keyboard.

Then, yesterday, the frontend froze on me when I was trying to play a video file. I went into the other room where my Windows box is, ssh'ed in and restarted gdm. This happens occasionally, and I thought nothing of it. Later on in the same day I was frustrated about using the keyboard so I picked up the remote and pressed a few buttons and voila! it worked. Thrilled by this, I made a few edits to my lircrc file to change some of the buttons and rebooted. Now, no remote again. Pounds head against wall repeatedly.

I read Xsecrets message about no longer needing the line in bootmisc.sh so I removed that, rebooted, no dice. Frustration set in even worse than before since I'd gotten one little taste of the remote working. Then, in desperation, I said to myself, "What did I do that made the remote work?" The only thing I'd done that day was restart gdm, so I tried that again. Remote works. Jubilation. Joy. Happiness. To test my theory I rebooted again. No remote. Restart gdm. Remote works. I have very little Linux knowledge, but the little but that I do have tells me that this makes no sense at all, but all I know is my remote is working, so I am happy, my girlfriend is happy, the keyboard is back inside the coffee table, and all is right in the world. Thanks to everyone who has helped me, I'm sure I'll need your help again in the future.

the only thing I can think of is that for some reason or another your lircd is getting loaded after mythtv on boot. not sure why, but that's the only thing that explains what's happening.

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Xsecrets

If I do :
# rmmod lirc_i2c
# modprobe lirc_i2c
# lircd
# irw

I see that :
root@mythtv:~# irw
0000000000001794 00 UP grayHauppauge
0000000000001f96 00 LEFT grayHauppauge
...

but if i'm in mythTV and I try to use my remote, nothing append...
What should I do ?

I followed the instructions to the T on the first page to try to get my remote to work but didn't have any luck. Any help or other links with help would be greatly appreciated.






KnoppMyth R5A16
PVR-250 Remote (like the one pictured on the first sheet)
AMD Athlon 1ghz
768 RAM
Nvidia Chipset Graphics
ASUS A7V133 mobo
80 gig HD

Did you try a reboot after all the steps what seems to be the errors you are having, please provide as much info as you can.

See my post above, as I was in the same situation as you. I can't explain why that worked, but it did.

stephencu2004 thanks for the reply. Yes I rebooted, my problem is that I can't even get pass the test portion, step no 12.

12.) To test:
code:
# rmmod lirc_i2c
# modprobe lirc_i2c
# lircd
lircd 0.7.1pre2: there seems to already be a lircd process with pid 3868
lircd 0.7.1pre2: otherwise delete stale lockfile /var/run/lircd.pid
#irw

(nothing happens when I press the buttons on the remote : ( I'm doing all this as root, is that correct?)

Looks like the wrong version of the daemon is running. If you patched 0.7.0, then you shouldn't see anything about 0.7.1.

Do a "whereis" or "locate" and find out where your 0.7.0 is stored. Remove the 0.7.1 package. I assume you can do this with apt-get remove, but I'm not positive. Perhaps someone else who knows can chime in.

Hello. I've been trying to get the pvr250 (just bought it this week) remote to work for several days now. Please keep in mind that I am a complete idiot when it comes to Linux, but I am learning. I have tried following the instructions in the first post, but I cannot get the remote to work. Is it possible that guide assumes I will do something at some point? Here is what I have done:

1. Start computer
2. Hit Esc to exit mythtv
3. Open X-Terminal as root (xconsole will not load)
4. Do the untar linux source step (should I see something happen after the "ln -s ..." part?)
5. Download the 3 files (I save to the /root directory - is that okay?)
6. I change to the /root directory and proceed through step 11
7. I enter the commands in step 12 (no feedback after any command). Nothing happens after I type "irw" and start hitting buttons on the remote. Then I hit CTRL-Z to get a prompt again.
8. I bang my head against the wall and cry in the corner

I know you guys get fed up with noobs asking about this all the time, but do you have any advice for me? Can I provide you with more info to help? BTW, this is the R5Alpha16 release of KnoppyMyth that I have. Thank you.


Update: While continually refreshing this page hoping for a reply , I noticed a link to the wiki ( http://knoppmythwiki.org ) in a signiture. I found this near the end of the wiki Install Instrucions page:

These extra notes only pertain to R5 alphas.

Extra notes:

While tuner cards are detected, the modules may not be loaded. This is true for ivtv based cards. To work around, when the system first boots to X: <CTRL><ALT><F1> Log in as root.
Code:
modprobe ivtv
echo ivtv >> /etc/modules
reboot


There is more after that, but after those three steps, my remote now sort of works! Some buttons are not doing anything in Mythtv, but most buttons are. Now I need to work on getting the other buttons working. Just wanted to post this for other knuckleheads like me that didn't know about or haven't read the wiki.

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Since you're getting some of the buttons to work now, I'd look to 2 things:

1) The connection might be spotty where it plugs into the PVR card itself. This is definitely an issue on my card. If I just tip the case to look behind it, I can goof up the IR receiver connection.

2) Your /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file might not be matched to your /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc file. If lirc is producing "LEFT" when your myth lircrc is looking for "<" then it won't work. If you copied the lircrc file from my inline post (that goes in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/ by the way), it should match up with the .conf file that is listed in the first post. If you have a "generic" lircrc file, this might explain why some buttons are working in myth and some aren't

Also, mythtv needs to be able to read the lircrc file, so if that was created as root, it might have a problem depending on the permissions. My copy is owned by mythtv and has permissions 644 (/etc/lirc/lircd.conf is owned by root, with 644 permissions)

Thanks! I rebooted and then tried irw to see what happened. All button presses showed up correctly (some produced "double clicks", but at least it matched up. So then I started editing my lircrc file. I think it was for an older remote, because some buttons matched your example in the first post, but there were several differences (that explains why some worked and some didn't in MythTv). I just commented out the "wrong" ones and created a few new ones based on your example. I'm happy to say that the remote is working very well now. I just need to enter more button commands into the lircrc file. Thanks again for all your help!

i'm -so- gunna try this when i get home. but what i dont understand
is why it takes 3 pages of complaints, for what should be a very simple
fix, to solve this dilemna?

Essentially, people try the instructions...if it doesn't work, they ask for more help. I don't see a problem here.

Perhaps you could elaborate on what you mean by very simple fix, but do this offline, as it's really not pertinent to the discussion of getting your remote control to work.