[mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)

Mon Feb 16 20:26:08 EST 2004

Marc, even without native lirc support, the irxevent alternative should
work.. Can you attach your ~/mythtv/.lircrc ?

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marc Mosthav
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:43 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)

I was following the discussion with great interest. My problem is that irw
shows the button presses nicely:

[mythtv at mythbox mythtv]$ irw
00000000000017fd 00 OFF hauppaugegrey
00000000000017e0 00 CH+ hauppaugegrey
00000000000017e0 01 CH+ hauppaugegrey
00000000000017e1 00 CH- hauppaugegrey
00000000000017e1 01 CH- hauppaugegrey

I have copied configfiles/hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc to ~mythtv/.lircrc and
to ~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc

But neither the native LIRC that I told settings.pro to use, nor irxevent
make it work on mythfrontend. The strace of irxevent looks like this:

read(4, "00000000000017fd 00 OFF hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4,
"00000000000017fd 01 OFF hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017fd
02 OFF hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e0 00 CH+
hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e0 01 CH+ hauppaug"..., 100)
= 38 read(4, "00000000000017e0 02 CH+ hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4,
"00000000000017e0 03 CH+ hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1
00 CH- hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1 01 CH-
hauppaug"..., 100) = 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1 02 CH- hauppaug"..., 100)
= 38 read(4, "00000000000017e1 03 CH- hauppaug"..., 100) = 38

Any ideas what I am missing???

Cheers,
Marc

----- Original Message -----
From: <mythgnomer at rowelab.com>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)

> Okay.. If there's no /dev/lirc, that was probably the problem.. But 
> since you're at the point of reinstalling from source, simple 
> instructions
follow
> for that..
>
> $> wget
> http://lirc.sourceforge.net/software/snapshots/lirc-0.7.0pre2.tar.bz2
> $> tar -xjf lirc-0.7.0pre2.tar.bz2
> $> cd lirc-0.7.0pre2
> $> ./setup.sh
>
> Select 'Driver Configuration' .. Then 'TV Card'.. Then 'Hauppauge TV
Card'.
> Back at the main screen, choose 'Save Configuration and Run Configure'.
> When that's done..
>
> $> make
> $> su
> $> make install
>
> Now, go check for /dev/lirc -- make install should have created an 
> entry
> like:
> crw-r--r--    1 root     root      61,   0 Jan 18 23:05 /dev/lirc
>
> If it didn't, you can create it manually 'mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0' but 
> like
I
> said, it _should_ be there at this point.
>
> Next step is to edit /etc/modules.conf and add 'alias char-major-61 
> lirc_i2c' and 'add below ivtv lirc_i2c'. This makes the lirc modules 
> load
up
> after the PVR-250 modules.
>
> You can either reboot to test, or just try 'modprobe lirc_i2c'. If 
> that doesn't give you any errors, then on to the next step.
>
> Before you start up lircd, you need to have a config file that matches
your
> remote. You can use irrecord to make one, go download one from 
> lirc.org,
or
> just use the one I've attached for the hauppauge grey (*grin*). Once
that's
> copied to the /etc directory, you can start lircd. You should see
something
> like the following in /var/log/lircd
>
> Feb 14 10:37:23 miniitx lircd 0.7.0pre2: lircd(hauppauge) ready
>
> Before moving on to the mythtv part, try running irw, and pointing the 
> remote toward the IR sensor and pushing buttons. You should see the 
> button names come up.
>
> If that looks okay, copy the hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc file from the 
> mythtv-0.14/configfiles directory into the .mythtv directory of the 
> user that you run mythfrontend as.. Ie,
>
> $> cp /root/mythtv-0.14/configfiles/hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc
> /home/scott/.mythtv/lircrc
>
> You should be able to log in as that user (in my case 'scott') and 
> start
up
> mythfrontend and have the remote work.
>
> Hope this helps..
> -Scott Rowe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Aleaxander
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:46 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray 
> Remote)
>
> mythgnomer at rowelab.com wrote:
>
> > /var/log/lircd doesn't get created reliably unless you're using the 
> > init script.. (ie, If you're launching lircd manually, or from
> > /etc/rc.local.)
>
> I'm too much of a newbie to understand how I'm launching lirc, however...
>
> > Irw just not running usually means that lircd isn't running (ps -aux 
> > | grep lirc before running irw) or check /dev/lirc (should not be a 
> > link to /dev/ttySx). If lircd is running, check for /dev/lircd.
>
> I've confirmed lirc is running (results of ps -aux | grep lirc):
> root 7217 0.0 0.1 4532 584 pts/2    S   22:31   0:00 grep lirc
>
> and there is is nothing under /dev/lirc.  There is however a lircd 
> socket
in
> /dev/.
>
> > Now, I've had some of the same problems after doing something like 
> > apt-get install mplayer - because that would also install liblirc 
> > 0.6.6.. So if none of the above works, uninstall lirc, updatedb, 
> > locate lirc and see what cruft is left behind.. If you have 
> > something like liblirc_client.so left over, whack it and install again.
>
> I did a search for liblirc* and the only results were:
> liblirc_client.so.0
> liblirc_client.so.0.0.0
>
> I uninstalled lirc using synaptic, then I moved them out of /usr/lib/ 
> (didn't seem like a good idea to delete them).
>
> Then I restarted, but I ran into this problem:
> mythfrontend: error while loading shared libraries: liblirc_client.so.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I originally installed lirc using apt-get, so I tried:
> # apt get install lirc-kmdl-$MYKERNEL
>
> and received this error:
> Couldn't find package lirc-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2163.nptl_32.rhfc1.at
>
> Trying to reinstall lirc via synaptic tells me that I have broken 
> packages (probably because they are a bit old at this point).  I think 
> I'm heading for a complete reinstall of Fedora Core 1 and a reinstall 
> per Jarod's
guide,
> but then the this machine (the frontend) will be running a different
version
> of MythTV than the backend, and I seem to recall that this can lead to 
> problems, so I went with your next suggestion:
>
> > I'd suggest installing from source, with the 0.7.0pre2 CVS snapshot
> > (http://lirc.sourceforge.net/software/snapshots/lirc-0.7.0pre2.tar.b
> > z2
> > - it's pretty easy to install this one from source.)
>
> Downloaded this snapshot, extracted it, but haven't figured out how to 
> install yet (and in my newbie way, I managed to extract everything to 
> /home/mythtv/... quite a mess : ).  I'm getting pretty sleepy at this
point
> (going on day 7 of 12 hour days at work... alas, the life of a video 
> game developer), so I'll probably have to continue working on this 
> tomorrow or the next day.  Thanks again for your suggestions.  If I 
> figure out how to fix this, I'll of course let the list know in case 
> anyone else (read total
> newbie) runs into the same problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Alex
>

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