[mythtv-users] Where can I buy a "normal" USB infra-red receiver

Jack Trout witmore1 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 04:51:41 UTC 2008


>
> I recently tried to move from a serial port IR receiver to a USB one.
> The serial port driver was giving me all sorts of problems which is
> why I decided to go USB. Problem is that the USB one I bought was
> advertised on eBay as a MCE remote but when it arrived the USB
> receiver is detected as a keyboard which means I can't create a
> lircd.conf file, yadda yadda yadda see other posts. Anyway, I'm giving
> up on that one as waaaay too hard.
>

My Case my remote wasnt an IR but RF, but it was first detected as a
keyboard and mouse. So initially all input was put into the system via
USB-HID and ATI_USB (it was a ati_remote wonder). I was able remove and
blacklist the kernel module that was loading and making it a ps2 device,
then was able to setup lircd to see the reciever, and irrecord then worked,
but only when it was loaded with the module for the remote reciever, and the
remote reciever wasnt being read by another device.

Currently I use MythDora, which they have an option for my remote, so I
didnt need to recreate this setup in a while.
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