I had everything up to (and including)IRW working with my PVR-350 (after selecting Grey Remote during install), and my remote even worked the first few times I rebooted after that, and then seemed to stop working without changing any lirc config files. (Although I was trying to setup different config files for add-ons like MythGame (as it turns out, I was always su'ing to root when tweaking)).

Until I realized that starting "mythfrontend" as "root" means my remote doesn't work, but if I start "mythfrontend" as user "mythtv", it works every time - I hope this helps others who were up to the IRW step, but couldn't get it working in MythTV.

Brian

Running the frontend or other bits (like mythfilldatabase) as root can do some funky things. I just cleaned up a silly problem I caused by doing this while testing instructions for some newbie. Definitely something to keep in mind...

I am running R5A22 with a PVR 350 and silver remote. First of all, I am wondering if this howto works with that version of Mythtv. Second, I got lost on steps 9-12. Could someone "walk me through them".

BTW what is the kernal source for R5A22

It would be great if you could help me out because I have been trying to figure this out for months

This is one of those cases where some "looking around" and common sense is called for:

You may also see some other files or directories using that "ls command, but these are the ones you care about. Note that these names are subject to change as Cecil uses new kernel version in subsequent releases. This should not surprise you. It should also be obvious from the fact that you have both a bzip2 compressed tar file and a directory that the kernel source has already been unpacked by the install process in this case.

Bottom line, this is not something you can do blindly. Try to understand the point of each step and you'll have far more luck.

Thank you very much for the reply. I will try your advice.

i am running r5a22. i got through all the steps and i am haveing issues when i run the test commands at the end of the howto. When i run rmmod lirc_i2c it gives me an error message that says "ERROR: Module lirc_i2c does not exist in /proc/modules". When i run modprobe lirc_i2c it reads:

when i type lircd it comes back with an error massage that says there is an error in the 1st line oc the config file.

do any of you know whats happening or where i went wrong?

i would also like to know what kind of response i am supposed to get from the irw command. Thank you

Well it sure sounds like you have a problem with the lirc config file. Did you look in the dmesg log for lirc errors as suggested? http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CheckingLogFiles Could you post the exact error message you're getting when you run lircd? Have you tried running lircd with debugging output enabled? (-D or --debug)

I actually got it up and running but thanks for the help. It was the config file

Just a thought but, some information on what was wrong how you fixed it might be useful to the next poor schmuck who comes along looking for answers... This is any easy way to start giving something back to the community...

I'm actually running into that exact same error achilles1942. Any input on how to fix it?

Running R5A30, had same error as achilles1942. Updated to 0.7.2 and everything worked fine. Followed the How-To and change all parms to 0.7.2. and skipped the patching stuff.

Sooooo........

that guy's URL is not even up anymore (His file to wget).

anybody got one that works well for silver remote?

Glad to hear this is still of some use. I hadn't expected this to have the lifetime it has. I've updated the link in the original post.
http://pdxitservices.com/lircrc

--Robert

Hi guys I've using Knoppmyth R5D1, everything is working great apart from my remote, suring installation I selected that I had the hauppauge silver remote, I've now realised I should have selected grey, is there any way to change this round without reinstalling?

Run the lirc-reconfig.sh script. You may need to reboot after doing this for the changes to take effect.