[mythtv-users] Volume control buttons on TiVo remote

[Tony Brummett]

On 9/15/08, Justin Johnson <justin.johnson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I'm using a TiVo remote control (actually a directv-tivo peanut remote)
>  to control my myth system. It works great except for the volume. For
>  some reason the repeat code is not recognized for volume up/down. While
>  every other button will repeat, the volume up/down only work once per
>  keypress

I'm also using a Tivo remote, and you have to treat it as two remotes
when you're getting the button press info with irrecord.  For the
majority of the buttons, you can just use the Tivo button codes from
the LIRC-supplied config files.  The other buttons that control the TV
(power, input, volume up/down and mute) are really another remote.
irrecord can get confused and fail to learn the codes correctly if you
try to do it all in one session, if the tivo buttons and the tv
buttons use different encoding schemes.

What I had to do was first use irrecord to learn all the tivo-related
buttons.  Then start irrecord a second time writing to another config
file for the tv-related buttons.  Then cat the two files together to
create the final  /etc/lircd.conf

-- Tony  brummett at gmail.com