Re: MythTV 0.27.4-31 Upgrade Success

On 6/3/2015 7:15 PM, James Szinger wrote:
> I'm also running MythTV on ContOS6.  I hope this helps.
>

Absolutely, we seem to be few and far between.

> I have a similar device---a USB IR receiver.  There's also a IR
> receiver on my tuner which I'm not using.
>
>> IR NEC protocol handler initialized
>> IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
>> IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
>> Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
>> input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815)
>> as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/rc/rc0/input14
> This means the kernel recognized the receiver as an input device,
> similar to a keyboard.  I think you want to use the devinput driver
> for lirc. http://lirc.org/html/devinput.html
> You can check for the receiver in /proc/bus/input/devices.
>
> I set LIRC_DRIVER="devinput" and LIRC_DEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/lirc an
> copies the generic devinput config to lird.conf.

I am currently going around with a gentleman on the MythTV list who is 
confused because the mceusb driver is creating both /dev/lirc0 and the 
/dev/input/eventXX entries. He thinks one or the other should be created.

So can you still do multiple remotes with the devinput interface? So you 
don't have a specific remote in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf?

>
> What I'd like to know is how you did your install. This is using the
> EPEL packages.
>
> $rpm -qa |grep lirc
> lirc-0.9.0-8.el6.x86_64
> lirc-libs-0.9.0-8.el6.x86_64
> I have the same packages.  It's been running this way for a while
> without problems.
>
> Previously, I had a different USB remote which pretended to be a
> keyboard and I couldn't quite get lirc to work with it.  It can be
> hit-or-miss as to weather the cheap Windows remotes work with Linux.
>

Okay, good, just gotta figure this out.