[mythtv-users] IR reciever on an Origen X15e

[Cameron Watt]

On 23/07/06, *Chris Nicholls* <chris.nicholls at swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
>
> First I'd like to thank the Mythtv team. Mythtv is now like the
> kitchen....can't do without it!   :)
>
> Second has any one use ...  and got the remote working in this case?
>
> http://www.origenae.com/product_x15e.htm
>
> First I thought Imon then IRman , now stumped
>
> Any thoughts??
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I have a X11 not X15, but I a pretty sure they use the same IR Receiver.
> They use the IR Trans USB modules. The lirc compatible server for the IR
> receivers can be found at http://www.irtrans.de/en/download/linux.php
>
> You run the irserver application as a daemon and it provides a LIRC
> compatible interface for LIRC applications like Myth. You will also need to
> download the IRTrans client to teach the irserver your remote control's
> buttons.
>
> Post back here if you have any problems and I will help if I can, what
> remote control are you using and what linux distro? I can post my Gentoo
> init.d scripts for irserver if you would like.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roo.
>

On 24/07/06, Chris Nicholls <chris.nicholls at swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:

Thankyou.

I have found and downloaded the software, have checked dmesg and I can see
the the receiver is being found. It is being attached to /dev/ttyUSB0 but
when I start the server for testing it says "cant open ttyUSB0". I must be
close.  J)



I'm running fedora 5 and the remote was supplies with the case….



Hi Chris,

It does sound like you are close.  Are you running irserver as root or
another user?

I am using Gentoo and I run irserver as root (I really should fix this and
run it as a less privileged user) and it starts OK.

Maybe you need to add the user you are running irserver as to the "tty"
group, on my system  "/dev/ttyUSB0" is owned by root:tty

Also, I think it has been fixed but, you used to have to create a "remotes"
directory, I created it at "/usr/local/share/irtrans/remotes", if you look
through the source code you will find other possible locations for the
"remotes" directory, but I don't remember them off the top of my head.

Hope this helps you get it going, good luck.

PS: Top posting is frowned upon on the Myth mailing lists :-)
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