[mythtvnz] Configuring the remote (TeVii s480)

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Glenn Ramsey <gr at componic.co.nz> wrote:
> 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.

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