[mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 Remote not working

Geoff mythtv at jagds.com
Mon May 11 12:57:47 BST 2009


If it's just a problem with the udev rule, then a nasty way of putting in
the symlink is to hack your lirc startup, not as nice as the udev rules, but
it works

 

ln -fs /dev/input/`cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -A 4 "IR-receiver" |
grep event | cut -d ' ' -f3 | head -n1` /dev/input/irremote

put than into the /etc/init.d/lirc


add


  if $START_LIRCD; then


                rm /dev/input/irremote


            ln -fs /dev/input/`cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -A 4
"IR-receiver" | grep event | cut -d ' ' -f3 | head -n1` /dev/input/irremote


            log_daemon_msg "Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC "


            REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=`build_remote_args $REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS`


 

 

 

From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Mark Catley
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 11:20 PM
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 Remote not working

 

Thanks for the help, unfortunately no improvement.
I fixed the firmware. No change.
Tried your suggested udev rules however no nodes turned up in /dev/input/.
I am on ubuntu/mythbuntu 9.04 so shouldn't need the hal fix but tried it
anyway. No luck.

Here are the outputs from some relivant commands:

My dmesg | grep -i dvb is 
[    9.586343] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in cold
state, will try to load a firmware
[    9.586346] usb 3-1: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw
[    9.628637] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[   10.340033] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in warm
state.
[   10.340100] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the
software demuxer.
[   10.340274] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx))
[   10.577267] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
[   10.760919] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the
software demuxer.
[   10.761119] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx))
[   10.913065] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
[   11.096971] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx) successfully
initialized and connected.
[   11.097237] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700

cat /var/log/syslog | grep lirc
...
May 11 23:03:59 ubuntu lircd-0.8.4a[2811]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
May 11 23:03:59 ubuntu lircd-0.8.4a[2811]: initializing
'/dev/input/irremote'
May 11 23:03:59 ubuntu lircd-0.8.4a[2811]: unable to open
'/dev/input/irremote'
May 11 23:03:59 ubuntu lircd-0.8.4a[2811]: Failed to initialize hardware
May 11 23:04:17 ubuntu lircd-0.8.4a[2811]: removed client
May 11 23:04:17 ubuntu lircd-0.8.4a[2811]: closing '/dev/input/irremote'

ls /dev/input/
by-id  by-path  event0  event1  event2  event3  event4  event5  mice  mouse0
mouse1

Any other suggestions?

Again, thanks for your help.
Mark

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Geoff <mythtv at jagds.com> wrote:

Whoops forgot to say check your firmware is loading ok..

Power down, and power backup, and check what firmware you get on a cold boot

dmesg | grep -i dvb

[   20.300000] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in cold
state, will try to load a firmware
 [   20.390000] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
'dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw'
 [   21.090000] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in warm
state.
 [   21.090000] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to
the software demuxer.
 [   21.090000] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual
DVB-T).
 [   21.230000] DVB: registering frontend 0 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)...
 [   21.850000] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to
the software demuxer.
 [   21.850000] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual
DVB-T).
 [   24.600000] DVB: registering frontend 1 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)...
 [   24.787147] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as
/class/input/input6
 [   25.240000] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully
initialized and connected.
 [   25.240000] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700

Make sure you are using dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw
/lib/firmware

If you've got 1.20.fw in there, rename and create a symlink to .1.10.fw so
you know that the only fw is the .1.10.



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Geoff
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:51 PM
To: mythtvnz
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 Remote not working

For the Nova T-500

Create a rule in udev

su gedit  /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

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

Reboot  I coulnd't get "sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart"
Try replacing the event* with KERNEL=="input*" if event doesn't work.

Reboot and CHECK the var/log/syslog and make sure that lirc can get access
to the /dev/input/eventxx

If this is in your syslog then shutdown.
[6589]: can't get exclusive access to events coming from
`/dev/input/eventxx' interface

Power up and test the remote works via irw
 irw
000000000001006c 00 ArrowDown NOVA-T500


If you're on ubuntu/mythbuntu running 8.10 then you'll need to edit the
lirc.fi,  9.04 has the lirc.fdi masks already there.

Check the Info.product matches your ncase  settings in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/lirc.fdi

Edit your lirc.fdi file to match

/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/lirc.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="IR-Receiver inside an USB DVB
receiver">
       <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
    </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>
Restart lirc

Regards
Geoff



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Mark Catley
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:14 PM
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: [mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 Remote not working

Hi all,

I am trying to get my new mythbox working and am stuck on the remote.

The IR-reciever doesnt seem to be present at all. It has no entries
in /proc/bus/input/devices or dmesg as far as I can see.
Also, no LIRC modules appear to be loaded.

Its a brand new nova-t 500 with a black remote.
I have tried the LIRC repeated configs on mythkiwi.com to no avail

On the plus side, freeview is all going :p.

Any help world be much appreciate.

Thanks,
Mark

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