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On 21/11/2012 3:38 PM, "Phill Edwards" <<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com">philledwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 21 November 2012 10:44, Phill Edwards <<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com">philledwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> The receiver is a MCE-receiver meaning that you'll need to tell your<br>
>>> Harmony remote that you want to control a Microsoft mediacenter PC.<br>
>>> You need to select something like<br>
>>> Component: "Computer/Mediacenter"<br>
>>> Manufacturer: "Microsoft"<br>
>>> Model: "Windows Media Center"<br>
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>>> ..in the Harmony configuration software. Afterwards you should be able<br>
>>> to run the "irw" command on your frontend, and see the keypresses when<br>
>>> you click on the Harmony remote.<br>
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>> Thanks Kenni. That makes it sound very easy and I'll try it tonight.<br>
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>> But don't I need to configure some lirc files as well - such as hardware.conf, lircd.conf etc? One thing I find confusing with these USB HID IR devices is what role lirc plays in getting them to work. Do I even need to run the lirc daemon or do I just shut it down - but if it's not running how does the machine manage to receive and process any of the IR signals?<br>
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>> As you can see I'm very confused with this stuff. Lirc is confusing at the best of times!<br>
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> Hmmm, clearly there's a lot more to getting this working than just programming the remote and it just working with "irw". I programmed the remote then pointed it at the ir receiver with irw running and nothing happened whatsoever. Also, I believe irw requires the lirc daemon to be running which surely means lircd.conf and harwdare.cconf (ubuntu) have to be running, doesn't it?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes. You set it to autostart in the lirc config file.</p>
<p dir="ltr">> What am I missing here? </p>
<p dir="ltr">You need to put your remote definition in the hardware file and each of the codes you obtained with irw for all the key press. This will map the ir signals to keys.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Last you need lircrc file in .mythtv to map the keys to actions in mythtv. You can do the same for mplayer, vlc etc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Im on my way home now and i can send you my files as example if you want.</p>
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