Has, anybody had any luck in getting the remote controll to work with R5A10 ?

Cheers

Ok. got it going .. not sure if all is needed here but i did the following

apt-get install lirc
apt-get install lirc-modules-source
* let it automagically detect *
then edited <linux source>/drivers/media/video/ir-kbd-gpio.c and uncommented the line for the 771 and commented the 761
/* case BTTV_AVDVBT_771: */

then just modprobe ir-kbd-gpio

after that when i pressed number 5 the PC went BEEP .. which is a good sign a suspect . Anyways .. went into myth and 'some' keys worked. Like up = down , down = up , so the mappings are all screwed up .. SO .. i might need some help with some mappings .. if you know how let me know , but in the mean time i will muck round till i break it .. ' i hate linux im so crap at it ' ..

anyways any help appreciated .. btw a full howto for AverMedia 771 DVB-T will follow once all is complete ...

Cheers

Hi Moto, thanks for the information on the remote.

I am new to the whole Myth thing and have just finished installing it using the latest download of Knoppix. Everything seems to be working well except for anything to do with the aver card

Do you have any more updates? I really want to get this working well, but my Linux skills only go as far as supporting a couple of Sco servers a long time ago. Any help you can give would be very gratefully appreciated by myself and I am sure a few other noobs lurking around the place.

Hey Moto,

I'm about to start working on getting the remote control to work on my AverMedia 771. Did you get any further than your last post ?


Thanks

Matthew

We newbies would truly appreciate if one of you who managed to setup the 771 remote posted detailed instruction... including program versions etc. etc.

Thanks

Ciao
Luca

I've got the Avermedia 771 remote working with gentoo linux, as described here. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-30 ... ight-.html
If you're not using gentoo you should still be able to make sense of this.

However I'm not sure its the best way to do it - the remote finishes up emulating part of the keyboard, and is treated like a numeric keypad. This has some "interesting" side effects, specifically: The buttons on the remote are upside-down with respect to the numeric keypad, so by default "up" becomes "down" and vice versa. Also, the numlock key on the keyboard affects the remote buttons - i.e. changes numbers into cursor keys or vice versa. It's all somehow not quite satisfactory. Anyone who has done it better, please let me know!

Richard

Have you tried simply swapping some of the lines in the lirc config file:

CHANNELDOWN 0x0193
CHANNELUP 0x0192


represent the Up and Down keys presumable, so why wouldn't you just swap the two of them? I haven't tried the 771 remote yet, but I plan on setting it up soon, so would be curious to know how you go.

Swapping the 'keypad up' and 'keypad down' functions will, as a side effect, make the '8' into a '2' and vice versa. So choose your poison

Actually I've done some experimentation over the weekend. Lirc actually isn't required at all if using the ir-kbd-gpio module. That module emulates the keyboard directly, so its actually not possible to reverse the keys using the lirc.conf because the lirc.conf actually isn't needed when you're using ir-kbd-gpio.

On realising this I went looking for a way to make lirc use the remote directly, and found this message on the lirc list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/mess ... id=7719048

Based on that thread I setup the remote using the lirc_gpio module instead of ir-kbd-gpio. It worked with lirc 0.7.1 using the module options listed there, i.e. lirc_gpio gpio_mask=0xf00f0 gpio_lock_mask=0x20 gpio_xor_mask=0xf00f0 soft_gap=0 sample_rate=10

That got me to the point of having to setup an lircrc to handle the button presses, which I have not yet done. There remains the problem of what virtual keycodes to actully assign to the remote buttons. Had an idea to turn all the remote buttons into virtual keycodes that don't relate to the keypad at all - either by defining wholly new keys (can you do that?), or by binding the remote keys to produce little-used virtual keycodes like 'Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F1' for "up", etc; then configure myth to understand all these bizarre key combos. It sounds like a lot of work, so I'm thinking there must be a better way.

Ok, works fine now. The keymap is screwed though, but the lircd.conf works excellent (as verified in 'irw'). So, I need a good lircrc-map for this remote if anyone's got it?