[mythtv-users] LIRC : sofware setup looks good but no response from irrecord or irw

[Scott Johnson]

Circuit City has the PVR 150 for $99 - $40 rebate  = $60.  This can be 
my excuse to get another tuner and thus another remote.
I'll try that to rule out the IR cable.  

Scott

Scott Johnson wrote:
> Nope.  There was no response from irw.
>
> Scott
>
>
> Michael Lynch wrote:
>   
>> On 6/8/06, Scott Johnson <scott-mythtv at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>   
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>>> After returning my PVR 500, I bought a PVR 150 and it has worked great.
>>> If the remote would work it would be perfect.
>>>
>>> I've been following Jarod's How-To and I can't find anything wrong with
>>> my current setup except that of course it behaves like the hardware is
>>> not getting any IR signals.
>>>
>>> I'm using the drivers for Fedora Core 4 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 which is the
>>> latest kernel available via yum.
>>> lircd service is running fine.  /sbin/service --status-all   shows this
>>> /dev/lirc exists and has 666 permissions
>>> There are no errors listed in /var/log/messages
>>> I can see the LED light flashing when I view the remote using my
>>> camcorder.  So the remote is working.
>>> I shoved the IR cable as far in the IR slot as it will go.  (Another
>>> post mentioned sometimes people don't put them in far enough).
>>> I have lirc_dev and lirc_i2c and /sbin/modinfo looks good.
>>> I tried
>>> # irrecord -f -d /dev/lirc lirc_record
>>> irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
>>> when I press buttons on the remote.  Then again, I get the same error
>>> when I don't press any buttons.
>>>
>>> So my working theory is that the IR cable is bad.  This puts me into a
>>> small depression as RMAs have cost me a month and too much restocking
>>> money.  So before I go that route, maybe there is something I've missed.
>>>
>>> Scott
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>> Before using irrecord, did you get any keypress response from irw?
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