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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:20 am 
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Hi,
I had some issues with getting my remote control to work with KnoppMyth some time ago and I solved them. And was very pleased. (see here: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10066&highlight= )

Now, after a recent clean install, I put R5D1 on my media centre and didn't bother with the remote, as I was intending to upgrade to .20 (following cecil's instructions). Which I duely did and was very pleased with that.

Now, I decided to get my remote working. I copied all the relevent files over into the relevent places. (See the end of my post I've linked to above.)

As I did this, I modified my lircrc to change the functionality of the coloured keys to use the interactive TV.

I cannot get the remote control to work.

From an X-term window (ALT-X) I can su, type
modprobe lirc_12c
lircd
irw

and each button press tells me that they are the correct codes (I press the red button and I get a little message telling me I've pressed RED).

In live TV nothing else works. I tried modifying my hardware.conf to
Code:
LOAD_MODULES=true
but this didn't improve anything. So I changed it back.

Anyone know what else should I do to get this to work again?

Thanks in advance.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:58 am 
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I guess its just a typo in your post, but shouldn't it be modprobe lirc_i2c ?

Lirc seems to be very picky with mythfrontend, might be best to start lirc on boot, run: update-rc.d lirc defaults

then reboot and see if the remote works properly :)

How did you edit your lircrc file? did you use a windows machine?


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:57 pm 
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I also have the same issue, I think its a new version of lirc thats causing the problem but I haven't had time to investigate.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Its worth noting that the remote does work, just the buttom mapping is wrong, perhaps its looking somewhere else for lircrc?

EDIT:

root@falcon:~# lircd -v
lircd 0.8.1-CVS-pvr150


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:13 am 
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Since I posted this, I haven't had a chance to do anything about it. Won't this weekend - have a wedding to go to. The weekend after is the start of half term (I'm the teacher btw) and I'll sitdown and have a good go at it then. If you get anywhere in the mean time, let me know!
- Comforting to know I'm not the only one.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:24 pm 
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Having checked the version of lirc hasn't changed.

Whats most interesting is all my mplayer mappings work and I can change them to prove it.

Also using irw I can confirm the lirc.conf is being used.

This makes me think the process name 'mythtv' is no longer applicable...

Anyone have any ideas why that might have happened or, even better, what it may have changed to ;)


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:10 pm 
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FIXT!

Well after some playing I noticed the modules in hardware.conf had changed. I removed the new lirc_pvr_150 module and rebooted (as restarting lirc doesn't seem to yeld good results for me) instantly my back buttons and the reset of my mappings worked! Wonderful I thought - until I realised the number buttons were not working :/

I used irw to check if they were being decoded, but they weren't.

I quit the mythfrontend and did a cat of /dev/input/event1 (your event number maybe different) and piped it to tee and saved the results of a few button presses into different files. I then did a hexdump of each of the files that looks like this :-

root@falcon:~# hexdump remote6.out
0000000 9a5a 4536 ee2c 000b 0001 0004 0001 0000
0000010 9a5a 4536 ee2f 000b 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000020 9a5b 4536 4f3a 0000 0001 0004 0000 0000
0000030 9a5b 4536 4f3c 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000040
root@falcon:~#

I soon worked out that the highlighted section is the remote button code. I then created a new lircd.conf using the new values I found, rebooted, and all was good :D

Remember you have to follow the steps listed in the guide @ http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6089 then just change the modules line in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf to :-

Code:
MODULES="lirc_dev"


Then replace the lircd.conf with this one:-

Code:
# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.7.2pre1(devinput) on Sat Jun 18 13:18:13 2005
#
# contributed by Paul Grigg (mad_paddler)
#
# modified by James Taylor (Jynx)
#
# brand:                       cx88.cfg
# model no. of remote control: Hauppauge silver remote with
# Connexant chipset Nova-T
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#

begin remote

  name  cx88.cfg
  bits           16
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  one             0     0
  zero            0     0
  pre_data_bits   16
  pre_data       0x8001
  gap          132900
  toggle_bit      0


      begin codes
          Go                       0x0161
          Power                    0x0074
          TV                       0x0179
          Videos                   0x0189
          Music                    0x0188
          Pictures                 0x016F
          Guide                    0x016D
          Radio                    0x0181
          UP                       0x0067
          DOWN                     0x006C
          LEFT                     0x0069
          RIGHT                    0x006A
          OK                       0x001C
          Back                     0x00AE
          Menu                     0x008B
          Vol+                     0x0073
          Vol-                     0x0072
          CH+                      0x0192
          CH-                      0x0193
          Prev-Ch                  0x019C
          Mute                     0x0071
          Rec                      0x00A7
          Stop                     0x0080
          FRW                      0x00A8
          Play                     0x00CF
          FFW                      0x00D0
          Skip-Back                0x00A5
          Pause                    0x0077
          Skip-For                 0x00A3
          1                        0x0002
          2                        0x0003
          3                        0x0004
          4                        0x0005
          5                        0x0006
          6                        0x0007
          7                        0x0008
          8                        0x0009
          9                        0x000A
          0                        0x000B
          Star                     0x0184
          Hash                     0x0172
          Red                      0x018E
          Green                    0x018F
          Yellow                   0x0190
          Blue                     0x0191
      end codes

end remote


Hope it works for you tophee!


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:24 pm 
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Looks promising. I'll have a look at that this weekend, or early next week.
I'll post how I get on.
Cheers Jynxeh!

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:16 am 
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Nice1 Jynxeh :) I'll bookmark this thread ready for when I finally upgrade past R5B7!

Does any1 know why periodically the lircd codes keep changing? Is it different kernel versions?


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:59 am 
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Hi,

Im trying to get the same remote working with R5D1 and having a fre issues.

I have setup the remote as per the instructions etc.

when running irw i get all the button presses correctly but when in mythtv i can not get the back button to work.

Please could you help me with this.

thanks


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:19 am 
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AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Annoying!!!

found out that the lircrc file was in the wrong place possibly.

fixed this problem by
linking a few files.

/home/mythtv
lircrc -> /home/mythtv/.lircrc

/home.mythtv/.mythtv/
.lircrc -> /home/mythtv/.lircrc
lircrc -> /home/mythtv/.lircrc

after reading a few things i foind the the .lircrc file can be located in a few places.

I deleted it from all of there places execpt one then linked them all to this one.


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