Hi all,

Upgraded from R5E50 to R527 and seem to be stuck on the popular remote issue. Mine (Grey with 415 inside) is not responding whatsoever. Not sure if it comes into play, but I have a usb imon vfd / ir (I was using the vfd in R5E50 but not the IR reciever - I was using the one that came with one of the 2 pvr 250s in the box). Other card in the system is a hd5500.

For starters: dmesg | grep saa7134
turns up nothing.

I ran this anyways:

# Stop it from loading the dvb stuff which drags in the IR keyboard stuff
sed -si.orig -e 's/^\(modprobe dvb-bt8xx\)/#\1/' \
-e 's/^\(modprobe saa7134-dvb\)/#\1/' \
-e 's/^\(modprobe cx88-dvb\)/#\1/' \
/etc/init.d/KnoppMyth-tv
reboot

wth no change.

I tried replacing ir-kbd-i2c.ko with the fixed one: ir-kbd-i2c.ko.r5f27
with no luck either

Eventually, I renamed ir-kbd-i2c.ko so the driver should not be loading ... with no luck either.

PS aux | grep lirc shows:
root 3024 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 19:58 0:00 [lirc_dev]
root 3027 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 19:58 0:00 [lirc_dev]
root 3694 0.0 0.0 2876 608 ? Ss 20:05 0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0

Not sure if that is the right driver but I wouldn't know which other one to use.

I also tried symlinking /dev/lirc to /dev/lirc0 although this was at the beginning and I think it disappeared after a reboot.

If I irw in an xterm while lircd is running and hit the buttons on the remote ... I see nothing.

/var/log/daemon.log show lirc doing something:

Sep 19 20:04:11 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3031]: removed client
Sep 19 20:04:12 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3031]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Sep 19 20:04:14 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3031]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Sep 19 20:05:29 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3031]: caught signal
Sep 19 20:05:29 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3694]: lircd(all) ready
Sep 19 20:05:42 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3694]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Sep 19 20:05:51 myvcr lircd-0.8.2-CVS-pvr150[3694]: removed client

Not sure where else to go from here ... any help would be appreciated!

thanks!
John

Which receiver are you trying to use?

I don't know anything about the PVR-250s, but I assume they both have the remote option? If so, I would think the device you want to use may be any of the following:
/dev/lirc
/dev/lirc1
/dev/lirc2

(1 for each of the 250s and 1 for the iMON receiver)

Which one is which will require the trial-and-error method. The device is defined in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf.

(Disclaimer: The above is based on my R5D1 systems. I don't have any tuners/remotes configured on my R5F27 test system)

If you run /usr/local/bin/vfd_install.sh that should get your VFD working.

Trying to use the pvr 250 reciever.

I have lirc0, lirc1, and lirc2 as devices .. no lirc.

I tried all 3 to no avail ... but I only restarted lirc ... not the FE or BE. I know that I was unable to restart lirc on older versions of knoppmyth without stopping the FE and BE. Is this still the case?

PS: thanks for the VFD pointer ... I hadn't got to that yet but nice to cross it off the list.

tks!
John

I'm not sure that Myth will pick up the changes without being restarted. I always used irrecord in my testing - change the device, try irrecord and if it responds reboot the machine.

BTW - you did select the correct remote when /usr/local/bin/lirc-reconfig.sh was run?

No problem...

Restarted the FE and all is working now. It was lirc1 I needed for my device.

Thanks again!
John

You're welcome. Glad you got it sorted out.
Do let me know if the VFD works for you.

VFD is working perfectly. Not sure if I will have to do it each time after a reboot, but I needed to kill the mythlcdserver -v process, and restart it using the -d option, otherwise it just displays the "thanks for using ..."

In R5E50 to get it up and running after a reboot, I would have to modprobe lirc_imon, restart LCDd, then do the above, all while standing on one leg ... so even if the above needs to be repeated, I am WAY better off - THANKS!

I had a similar issue with my VFD, I thought it was due to the lirc_serial module as I am using a serial IR receiver. Try this:

* - Remove lirc_imon from /etc/modules
* - Add modprobe lirc_imon to the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
* - Reboot

Does this work any better?

Had a power failure this morning and when I brought the machine back up... imon VFD was working perfectly - without the suggested changes. Guess I just needed a reboot.

tks!