[mythtvnz] WinTV Nova-S Plus Remote...

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:31:06 +1300, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I'm having a bit of trouble with the remote for my Hauppauge WinTV
>Nova-S Plus. I basically don't seem to be able to receive anything.
>
>The IR reciever is set up and the card is detected and working in Myth,
>it's just the remote I'm having problems with. I've tried looking at the
>setups at: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-S_Plus_PCI
>and http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu2.php But I think the problem
>might be more basic.
>
>Running cat /proc/bus/input/devices, gives:
>
>> I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
>> N: Name="Power Button"
>> P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=kbd event0 
>> B: EV=3
>> B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
>> 
>> I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
>> N: Name="Power Button"
>> P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input1
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=kbd event1 
>> B: EV=3
>> B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
>> 
>> I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
>> N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
>> P: Phys=
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input2
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=mouse0 event2 
>> B: EV=7
>> B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>> B: REL=3
>> 
>> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
>> N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
>> P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=kbd event3 
>> B: EV=120013
>> B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
>> B: MSC=10
>> B: LED=7
>> 
>> I: Bus=0001 Vendor=0070 Product=9202 Version=0001
>> N: Name="cx88 IR (Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus "
>> P: Phys=pci-0000:02:06.0/ir0
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/0000:02:06.0/input/input4
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=kbd event4 
>> B: EV=100003
>> B: KEY=100fc312 214a802 0 0 0 0 18000 41a8 4801 9e1680 0 0 10000ffc
>> 
>> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
>> N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
>> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=mouse1 event5 
>> B: EV=7
>> B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>> B: REL=103
>
>Which shows that the remote should be on /dev/input/event4, so I ran: 
>
>$ sudo /usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event4 -n
>
>and (in a separate terminal):
>
>$ irw
>
>but when pressing buttons, I don't get any output!
>
>Is anyone else using this remote on Mythbuntu 9.10, if so is there anything
>I've missed?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rob Connolly

Are you using Mythbuntu 9.10?  If so, then there was probably a lircd
running already.  Did you shut it down first?  I think it would be
better to use the Mythbuntu Backend Setup to configure lirc and
restart the daemon rather than running it manually.  If there is not
the correct setup option for a Nova-S Plus remote, then pick something
as close as you can get (eg another Hauppauge Nova) and manually
adjust the /etc/lirc files after that.

Once you get the hardware responding, there is another little
complication.  I have a Hauppauge Nova TD-500 PCI card, and I had to
add a udev rule so that the device event number did not change each
boot.  This is my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules file (turn off word
wrap):

======================================================================
KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{name}=="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB
receiver", SYMLINK+="input/TD-500-ir"
======================================================================

You will probably need something similar.