I'm a newbie to myth so excuse any dumb questions, but so far Knoppmyth is great..I'm having troubles getting the silver dog bone remote RC6 to work with myth. I'm running version R5E50. I checked dmesg for lirc (view below) and also checked lsmod for lirc and a list of modules looks to be loaded (view below).. should I be concerned about the bolded dmesg message? I checked around the forum but nothing seems to help..Actually the only thing that I attempted was to rerun the shell script to select type of remote and then run irw..which made no differance...Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..Thanx

DMESG output:

lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transciever and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC v0.26
lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <lirc@rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter <martin_a_blatter@yahoo.com>
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_mceusb2[3]: Topseed eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb2:3
usbcore: registered new driver lirc_mceusb2
lirc_pvr150: ivtv i2c driver #0: no devices found
[<e230f567>] init_module+0x37/0x40 [lirc_i2c]
lirc_mceusb2[3]: usb remote disconnected
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_mceusb2[4]: Topseed eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb2:4

LSMOD output:

lirc_i2c 12420 0
lirc_pvr150 19896 0
lirc_mceusb2 14596 0
lirc_dev 16628 3 lirc_i2c,lirc_pvr150,lirc_mceusb2
ivtv 170000 1 lirc_pvr150
firmware_class 11648 7 lirc_pvr150,dvb_bt8xx,sp887x,bttv,or51211,cx25840,ivtv
i2c_core 20864 24 cx88xx,lirc_i2c,nvidia,lirc_pvr150,dvb_bt8xx,nxt6000,mt352,sp887x,dst,bttv,dvb_pll,cx24110,or51211,zl10353,lgdt330x,wm8775,cx25840,ivtv,saa7115,msp3400,tuner,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_i801
usbcore 111364 3 lirc_mceusb2,uhci_hcd

If you've got a PVR-150, you need to use those options which use a different MODULES settings in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf. For a PVR-350 or PVR-250 you need:

but for the PVR-150 you need:

Thanks for your reply, but my hardware.conf already contains the modules specified for the PVR-150..

My PVR-150 required



I did an upgrade from R5C7 and used TJC's post about upgrading and lirc gotchas.

The hauppaung card is famous for the plug not inserting into the jack properly. The jack is actually too close to the edge of the card. Make sure that the reciever is plugged in and give the cord a wiggle.

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I have tried all the above steps with no success. I also tried every option for the hauppaung card when running lirc-reconfigure. I even reinstalled the distribution. One thing to note though is during the installation selecting the model of the remote, it displayed an error relating to something like "unable to acess /root.lircrc and /etc/lircrc does not exist". These files do not currently exist. Should these files exist?

I have this Same receiver with the RC6 remote. I also have one of the Grey (WinTV Go Plus) remotes. I hooked up the Receiver (USB) and get nothing from the Remote. I tried a few other of the re-defined Hauppauge remote/receiver configs and nothing. Then out of frustration, I pulled out the Grey remote, using the same receiver that came with the PVR-150 MCE and Walla, It worked. The WinTV Go Plus did come with the same receiver/irblaster as the 150 MCE board, just a different remote. It does not seem to be a receiver problem. It seems that it does not recognize any of the codes from the Silver RC6 MCE Remote.

Also, I've had no luck with the IRBlaster. The blaster plugs into the USB Receiver.
Seems the receiver is eHome? Is this Irblaster (plugged into the receiver box) supported?

I was actually trying to debug the exact same problem last night.

Do me a favor and do a full power down of your system, wait 30 seconds, then power it back up.

Let me know if that works.

Thanks,

Devin

Are you responding to my post? I have powered down and up several times and it never responds to the Silver (RC6 MCE) remote although I do see the red LED in the receiver box blinking when I press buttons. It continues to work with the Grey Remote, and I haven't a clue on how to get the IRBlaster on this thing configured and working.
It seems there are two types of IR remote interfaces. One plugs into the PVR Card itself and the other is the Stand Alone USB (eHome) box. I read posts on the forum and I can't tell most of the time which one people are referring to. I've have not recognized any help or advice specifically for the USB version anywhere.

Engineers, they just love to change things! (Bones)

I hate to say it, but I have the same remote and no matter what I did, I could not get it recognized. On a whim I tried MythDora and the remote was recognized out of the box following configuration. So there you have it, I've a backend consisting of KnoppMyth and a frontend consisting of MythDora.

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BTW - The USB MCE remote of any version or color is _not_ the "silver dogbone". The dogbone aka the "A415" remote (after the numbers inside the battery door) has a row of 4 colored bottons at the bottom. It uses a dongle attached directly to the Hauppauge card via a 3/32" stereo mini-jack (smaller than the standard 1/8" jacks). If you select the dogbone remote for a USB connected dongle do not be surprised if it doesn't work.

I have the A415 remote and occasionally it stops working after a reboot. I try the shell script then run irw and get "connection refused" I reboot, run the script again, reboot, then irw still I get "connection refused". The only way I've found to get it working again is to completely shut down then power up after a minute or two. It's not that big of a deal but if other people have had the same problem I'd be curious to know the fix.

Thanks

I think i've tried most, maybe not. If not the Silver Dogbone, which one is it?
The A415 does work, just not the RC6 that came with the 150 MCE. Still have not heard anything about the IRBlaster for this setup (USB receiver). Does anybody have this working?

The A415 is the dogbone, but the RC6 is an USBMCE2 remote and you need to use that setup for it.

Thanks. I don't recall seeing that one but I'll look for it tonight when I get home.
Do you know if this will get the IRBlaster recognized? After it at least sees it, I'll either have to train it for the Time Warner Cable box or hopefully, theres already a setup for it.

Thanks again.