[mythtvnz] Configuring the remote (TeVii s480)

[Glenn Ramsey]

On 05/06/12 23:59, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:53:38 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What do need to do to configure the IR receiver on my s480?
>>
>> /var/log/kern.log shows entries like this:
>>
>> Jun  3 11:38:39 tv kernel: [   14.811506] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB r
>> eceiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/0000:03:00.1/usb4/4-1/input/input12
>> Jun  3 11:38:39 tv kernel: [   14.811919] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interva
>> l to 150 msecs.
>>
>> but I don't have any /dev/lirc entries. What am I missing?
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>> Short intro: I am a software developer (mainly Windows and OSX) and long time
>> Linux and OSS user (started 1997 ish). I am building a mythtv box to replace a
>> DVR that died a couple of weeks ago.
>
> For my Mother's Hauppauge Nova TD-500 card, I had to write a udev rule
> to map the remote input to a known /dev device.  I created a
> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules file:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2040",
> ATTRS{idProduct}=="8400", SYMLINK+="lirc0"

Thanks, I have that working now. Just need to find the proper lircd.conf for 
this remote now. There is one one for the s650 [1] which has all the right keys
but only a couple of the keys seem to work. If I use irrecord to capture a 
couple of keys, the data format seems very different to that for the s650 
remote. I guess I'll be making my own lircd.conf.

[1] http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/tevii/

> (That is one long line - it may be wrapped in your newsreader).
>
> That creates a /dev/lirc0 device that is stable across boots and can
> be used in your /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file.  You will need to adjust
> the vendor/product IDs to the ones for your card - lsusb should tell
> you the right numbers.  Take a look at the TD-500 support page for
> more about remote setup:
>
>    http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500
>
> You can also use your Android smartphone or tablet as a remote using
> the MythMote app, or MyMote or MythRemote on an iPhone or iPad.

I have an iPod touch but so far have been unable to get it to connect to the 
frontend.

Glenn