[mythtv-users] IR troubleshooting

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Manuel Vazquez
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] IR troubleshooting
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Finally Igot almost anything working....only remote control doesn't work.
> I want to use the remote control of my Hauppauge PCI FM tuner
> card. LIRC works
> and is started correctly on system bootup with the lirc_i2c
> module. irw is
> also working. So far...
> I copied the example .lircrc file to my home directory. I had to
> correct some
> button names with the right ones from my lircd.conf. I left the
> rest of the
> file as it was and added no further entrys. When I start mythbackend and
> frontend the remote control simply does nothing.
> To check if all was correct, I tried to start irexec in the console - no
> errors! When I press a key, it does not print out anything. Is
> this right?
> For information, I already used irexec before to launch any programs or
> things like that, so irexec should work fine.


You either need to run 'irxevent' instead of 'irexec', or you need to use
Myth's native LIRC support.  Try 'irxevent' first.

-JAC