[mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

[Marius Schrecker]

> Sooo can anyone help me?
>
> On 10/1/05, Steve G <stgarf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
>> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker
>> > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM
>> > To: Discussion about mythtv
>> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
>> >
>> > > Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access
>> > rights
>> > > on the lirc* devices ?
>> > >
>> > > Niels Dybdahl
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: Steve
>> > > To: Discussion about mythtv
>> > > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM
>> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A friend of mine gave me an "ATI Remote Wonder" remote and usb
>> > receiver.
>> > > From my understanding it is a RF setup here, not an IR setup.
>> > > I am running gentoo, so someone told me I needed to emerge lirc when
>> I
>> > > have LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=atiusb" in my make.conf. So I did "#
>> > > emerge unmerge lirc" and then I did "emerge --newuse lirc". The
>> problem
>> > > I have is I start lircd by doing "# lircd -n" It says whatever it
>> > > says... then I log in to another terminal as a normal user and do "$
>> > > irw". This just brings me back to "$ " and causes the "# lircd -n"
>> that
>> > > I ran to crash whilst complaining about not finding /dev/lirc.
>> > >
>> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > This sounds very much like the problem I had with my usb receiver.
>> >
>> > What are you getting in /var/log/messages when you start lircd?
>> Oct 1 12:32:55 MythTv lircd-0.7.2[21570]: lircd(atiusb) ready
>> When I start irw and go back to the console I started "lircd -n" on I
>> see
>> this:
>> MythTV ~ # lircd -n
>> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: lircd(atiusb) ready
>> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
>> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: default_init(): No such file or directory
>> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: caught signal
>> Terminated
>> MythTV ~ #
>>
>> > I had to symlink my /dev/lirc node to /dev/usb/hiddev0 (your usb
>> device
>> > may well be different).
>> I'm not sure where my USB device is... I've tried various ls's in /dev
>> to
>> find it to no avail. But I gather this much from what you're saying: "#
>> ln
>> -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc" or am I way off?
>>
>> > If the driver needs a module has this been built and installed, and
>> does
>> > it load?
>> I'm not sure what you mean here, but I have built lirc with "atiusb" in
>> the
>> LIRC_OPTS in my make.conf.
>>
>> > Are you running udev? This should take care of your /dev node mappings
>> for
>> > you. Unfortunately I can't on my system.
>>
>> Yea, I do have udev...

udev will probably help you later, if you can figure ouot how to set up
rules for it, I'm afraid I can't help you there.

First I think you should try to ascertain if your /dev/lirc should be
symlinked to anything else.  Make a note of the node major and minor
numbers so you can recreate it later:

#ls -la /dev |grep lirc

then try linking to your usb hid devices in turn and seeing if you can
capture ir activity:


# ln -s /dev/usb/hiddev0 (for example) /dev/lirc
$ irw
ffa1000300000096 00 MOUSE_MEDIUM_N MEDIAMASTER
ffa1000300000096 00 MOUSE_MEDIUM_N MEDIAMASTER
ffa1000300000097 00 MOUSE_FAST_N MEDIAMASTER
ffa1000300000097 01 MOUSE_FAST_N MEDIAMASTER

you can also monitor your lircd log for clues:


# tail -f /var/log/lircd
Oct  2 10:34:13 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: lircd(bw6130) ready
Oct  2 10:34:13 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct  2 10:34:13 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: initializing '/dev/lirc'
Oct  2 10:58:08 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct  2 10:58:08 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: removed client
Oct  2 11:00:31 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct  2 12:23:03 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct  2 12:23:27 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct  2 12:24:41 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: removed client
Oct  2 12:24:46 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: removed client

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Marius