Hi,
Just upgraded to from R5C7 to 5E50 and everything looks good except that my remote is no longer working. I tried some changes related to similar issues on this forum but none of them work. I think that the pertinent details are

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf contains DEVICE=""
/dev/lircd is present but /dev/lirc and /dev/lirc0 are not
Remote is a Hauppauge a415-hpg
Rerunning lirc-setup.sh doesn't change anything (that I've noticed)

Any other ideas? Can I just create a /dev/lirc0, and if so what major/minor numbers should I use? Thanks.

Cheers,
Jim.[/list]

Please see the item 3 under "Known Chnages" and item 2.3 under "Phase 3 - Post-install setup" in the R5E50 Upgrade hints and hazards posting.

BTW - Searching for "R5E50" and "lirc" would also have turned this information up.

Yep thanks for the suggestion but as mentioned I tried the changes as listed on the forum and they didn't help. After some more tracking down it looks like the issue was that in addition to nothing in the DEVICE line there was also nothing in the MODULES line so set the MODULES line to be MODULE="lirc_i2c" and rebooted and things started working.

Note that the issue may have actually been that there was no lirc_i2c entry in /etc/modules as it seems that it could go in either /etc/modules or the MODULES line in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf and I don't know if there are any preferences for one over the other. I ended up putting it in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf and everything now seems to work okay.

Cheers,
Jim.

FYI, I added the
to the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file and rebooted and my a415-hpg PVR-150 silver remote worked!

p.s. I did a clean install (not an upgrade)

Thanks!

Most of the "Known Issues" section of the upgrade hints still applies for scratch installs. Some of the changes probably apply too, especially where existing documentation is concerned.

Thank you !!!!! I had been having the same issues and reading the various threads and trying the suggestions for a few hours before I came upon this and it worked perfectly.

Thanks!!!

Jim,

Did you create a new device?



I'm having difficulty with my PVR250. I have followed the instructions of the posts, but do not seem to be getting very far. My hardware.conf looks like this:







returns



I know I have the correct lircd.conf and lircrc from my previous installs

I have added lirc_i2c to my /etc/modules but still not luck.

Any help is appreciated.

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I got the remote control working after doing an upgrade from R5D1 to R5E50. I have a PVR350 with the grey A415-HPG remote control.

Prior to getting it working, I tried many things from recompiling the kernel (thanks to Cecil for providing the kernel source) and the modules to tweaking all kinds of parameters using various forum topics, all to no avail. Here is what worked for me:

Below are the devices present:

What worked for me was changing the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf from:

to

Although there may be different reasons for the remote not to work after an upgrade, I hope this posting will help others having the same issue as the one I had...

I have a PVR350 with the grey A415-HPG, which is acting pretty strange.

if i run "ls -l /dev/lir*"


my "/etc/lirc/hardware.conf"


I made all the changes suggested one thing to note however is i could not find any files on my computer called "lirc-setup.sh". I did find however "/usr/local/bin/lirc-reconfig.sh" and i ran that selected the correct remote. This didn't work either i tried rebooting and that didn't work either.

Also i noticed that after running the "/usr/local/bin/lirc-reconfig.sh" file /dev/lircd appears in my /dev directory. When i reboot the computer it dissapears again.

Does anyone know where i am going wrong?

The new lirc driver may help. See this page on the wiki http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CompileIvtv-0.10.0

Hmm I could be wrong as i see myself as a newbie but isn't the link you gave me to compile ivtv not lirc. I don't want to mess up my tv cards as they are working!!!

In the meantime i found the kernel source at this link as cecil posted here if anyone else needs it

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13281&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

I am still not sure whether i was supposed to compile ivtv or lirc but i went through the link that tlc sent me and i did not mess up my tv cards, however it did not fix the lirc problem.

Sorry for the typo, I meant the new ivtv driver. This matters since the remote is connected through the ivtv card, and the new driver contains many i2c updates.

Have you rerun the lirc-reconfig.sh script after doing that and selected the appropriate remote (Hauppauge Silver)? After doing that you need to tweak the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf to make sure it has the right device (probably /dev/lirc0 check the dmesg log to be sure) and drivers

What would i be looking for in the dmesg log?

I tried searching for lirc and /dev/lirc nothing came up though.

This may or may not be of any help but this is some more information i am gettings from these commands.

Also maybe i ran the dmesg too soon as i wasn't waiting for the computer to restart but now 5 minutes later i am getting some output from dmesg.

lsmod | grep lirc


dmesg | grep lirc