[mythtv-users] Can't get remote to talk to mythtv

[Nick Morrott]

On 12/03/07, Bob Sully <rcs at malibyte.net> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I have everything just about working.  Myth does what it needs to do; I
> still have to work on getting transcode to work correctly, but that's
> something I can deal with later.
>
> My problem right now is that the remote doesn't seem to work (well, Myth
> doesn't respond to it; I do see codes being transmitted with mode2
> running).
>
> The daemons are running:
>
> [rcs at vader: ~]$ ps aux | grep lirc
> root      2769  0.0  0.0  11300   724 ?        Ss   16:17   0:00 lircd
> --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc
> root      2916  0.0  0.0   2624   248 ?        Ss   16:20   0:00 lircmd
> rcs      11297  0.0  0.0   4144   708 pts/4    R+   19:44   0:00 grep lirc
>
> /etc/sysconfig/lircd has it loading up the right modules:
>
> [rcs at vader: ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep lirc
> lirc_imon              15300  2
> lirc_dev               16960  1 lirc_imon
> usbcore               125628  10
> lirc_imon,usbmouse,usbkbd,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
>
>
> The system:
>
> SilverStone LM14B Case with VFD/IR receiver and iMON remote
> Abit NF8-V motherboard
> Athlon-64 single core, 2.4GHz overclocked slightly (2.55GHz)
> pcHDTV 5500 tuner cards x 2
> Creative Audigy sound card
> 2GB DDR 400 RAM
> 2x320G SATA HDD
> 1x400G PATA HDD
> 1x160G PATA HDD; 789G as an LVM group for Myth recordings, the rest for
> other stuff.
> OS: Mandriva 2006, updated, for x86_64; running Linus's kernel 2.6.18rc5
> MythTV 0.20a, installed from 64-bit RPMs (as far as I can see, seems to
> have been compiled with all options enabled).
>
> I have a Harmony 550 remote and would like to eventually use it...but I
> have an lircd.conf file specifically for the iMON remote and will try to
> get  it working first.

Assuming irw works with your lircd.conf file, have you got
Myth-specific entries in your $/.lircrc file? See
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LIRC and the lircrc docs for more
info.

Nick
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