Here's a new HOWTO from info I've collected from previous howto's.
This works with the newer silver remote included with the PVR 150,
and possibly other Hauppauge models. The remote looks like this:


Please let me know if you try this and it doesn't work. I have heard that
lirc-0.7.1 has support for this remote, but I was unable to get it to work.
Feel free to post any modifications if you get it to work with lirc that
comes standard with KnoppMyth R5A15.1.

LIRC Setup for PVR150 Silver Remote on KnoppMyth
Posted originally by jac1d ("Jeff") on mysettopbox.tv
Modified for R5A15.1 by Robert Jones (robert.pdx)

*** Edited 6/9/05:
If you haven't already, you'll need to untar your linux source:

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*** Edited 6/30/05:
Remove the existing lirc that comes with KnoppMyth

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1.) Download the following:

This is the patch to make this remote work with lirc
http://www.pjd.nu/lirc/lirc-0.7.0_pvr150.patch.gz
You can use the wget program at the command line also:


This is the file that goes in /etc/lircd.conf to interpret the remote
http://www.pjd.nu/lirc/lircd_pvr150.conf


This is the actual source for lircd that we're going to patch and compile
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lirc ... .0.tar.bz2 (note, wget will not work to this link since it redirects to mirror selection)
Here's a direct link to one of the mirrors:

2.) unpack lirc and the patch. Put the patch in the lirc directory. (Edited 5/30/2005 - the f switch must be last parameter before the filename, thanks to those who caught that)

3.) Enter the lirc source dir and apply the patch

4.) Run the setup script
Select Driver Configuration (1)
Select TV Card (5)
Select Hauppauge TV Card (f)
Select Save Configuration & Run Configure

5.) Run make (must be logged in as root)

6.) Then run make install

7.) Move the original out of the way

8.) Move the correct conf in place

9.) Add the following line to the end of /etc/modules


10.) Add the following to the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh so it will load on reboot



11.) Make sure the following line appears in /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv


12.) To test:

Point the remote at the reciever and press the buttons and you should get output.


13.) Map the buttons to the MythTV functions.

Edit /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc. Do this as user mythtv.
I've posted a sample you can wget. If you want, you can change/customize them, using the other button entries as examples (updated link 12/17/06 - a few requests still):

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Following the addition of this last file, reboot and try your remote in MythTV.

Enjoy your remote!
--Robert

well, I followed these steps, and it doesn't work... more specifically when I test the remote irw outputs nothing.

I think the issue may be having a pvr-350 in my box WITH a pvr-150, so I'm wondering is there any special stuff I need to do to specifiy the pvr-150 instead of the 350. My system detects the pvr-150 first (it's /dev/video0) if that changes anything...

anyway here's some more helpful stuff:







and dmesg contains:


any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a pvr 250 and 350 in the same box and this guide worked for me, did you follow it exactly?

I contacted him offline. I believe the problem was that the IR receiver was not plugged into the card fully.

My PVR 150 was finicky with the remote receiver connection. It took a bit of wiggling to get it to connect correctly.

Robert

I get the following error when I run this command from step 2:



Any ideas?

looks like you skipped step one, cause the error means the file is not there.

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Xsecrets

No, I downloaded all three files from step 1, and ran the gunzip command in step 2, followed the above guide exactly. ls shows that the file is there.

Swap the positions of the j and the f: the filename has to follow directly after the f parameter of the tar command. So, since the j follows the f, it thinks you are looking for the file called "j". tar -xpvjf lirc-0.70.tar.bz2 should work.

-brendan

try

Thanks guys, I'll try this tonight when I get home. If I can get the remote working I'll finally have my Myth box complete.

I have the remote working perfeclty in irw, but MythTV is being an ass.

I have the config files set correctly... I THINK...

/~.mythtv/lircrc (which is also linked to ~.lircrc) and the buttons are mapped to the button names that irw returns. Not a single press does ANYTHING at all in MythTV.

The names from irw corespond perfectly to what the buttons are on the remote, so I know that config is correct.

I just don't get it, and Im about to give up completely.

what version of knoppmyth are you running? If you are on the old R4V5 then you have to make sure you load the binaries that are compiled with lirc support.

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Have a question search the forum and have a look at the KnoppMythWiki.

Xsecrets

I finally get output in irw after following this procedure exactly (switching the j and f above worked, thanks again) but still none of the buttons work in Myth. Running R5A15.1. My config files match the output in irw.

Following this guide and so far so good but now I am getting this error



Any advise for me??? Thanks

Never mind it was a permissions issue and I fixed that but now that I have completed the steps above I still get no output with irw with my PVR350 card... help please