[mythtv-users] hauppage grey remote not working in mythtv, but lirc IS

[Benjamin Watkins]

At 09:28 PM 3/15/2004 , I wrote:
>At 05:09 PM 3/15/2004 , you wrote:
>>I've recently gotten mythtv running (using Knoppmyth distribution) and 
>>have a Hauppage 350 card with the grey remote.  Everything seems to be 
>>working with the exception of the remote.  If I use irw and press some 
>>buttons I get :
>>
>>mythtv at mythtv:~ $ irw
>>00000000000017e1 00 CH- hauppaugegrey
>>00000000000017d0 00 VOL+ hauppaugegrey
>>00000000000017d0 01 VOL+ hauppaugegrey
>>00000000000017d0 02 VOL+ hauppaugegrey
>>00000000000017e5 00 OK hauppaugegrey
>>0000000000001fcc 00 BLANK hauppaugegrey
>>
>>but when I start mythfrontend, the remote doesn't do anything.  I don't 
>>get any error messages in /var/log/messages, and dmesg shows the lirc_dev 
>>driver loading properly, and lircd is started and working (as evidenced 
>>by the working irw)...and I have $HOME/.lircrc soft linked to 
>>$HOME/.mythtv/lircrc and that file is the correct rc file for the 
>>hauppage grey remote (which is what I have)..all that and it still 
>>doesn't work...does anyone have any ideas or things I can try to get more 
>>information as to what is wrong ?
>>
>>oddsock
>
>KnoppMyth does not install a lirc-compiled MythTV by default.  You can 
>install the lirc version with any of the following packages:
>
>/home/mythtv/r4v2_src/mythtv-0.14/pkgs/i586/mythtv-i586-lirc-xvmc_0.14-1_i3 
>8 6.deb
>/home/mythtv/r4v2_src/mythtv-0.14/pkgs/i586/mythtv-i586-lirc_0.14-1_i386.deb
>/home/mythtv/r4v2_src/mythtv-0.14/pkgs/i686/mythtv-i686-lirc-xvmc_0.14-1_i3 
>8 6.deb
>/home/mythtv/r4v2_src/mythtv-0.14/pkgs/i686/mythtv-i686-lirc_0.14-1_i386.deb
>
>You will want to install one that is appropriate for your processor and 
>xvmc environment.
>
>-Ben : )

I forgot that KnoppMyth gives you scripts to do this already.  They are (as 
root):

installl-i586-lx
installl-i586-l
installl-i686-lx
installl-i686-l

Of course, I only included the ones with lirc.  The others are easy 
enough... just remove the "l" at the end.  I hope this helps.

-Ben : )