Re: MythTV 0.27.4-31 Upgrade Success

On 6/4/2015 7:18 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
>
> On 6/4/2015 6:31 AM, James Szinger wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:25:20 -0700
>> Kirk Bocek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> This doesn't match my experience.  I just plugged a USB DVB adapter
>> into my Fedora laptop and it created both a /dev/lirc0 and
>> a /dev/input/eventXX entry.  I'me not sure it matters much, since I
>> don't refer to the /dev/ entry at all in my lirc config.
>
> I think this guy was wrong.
>
>>> So can you still do multiple remotes with the devinput interface? So
>>> you don't have a specific remote in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf?
>> I don't know, since I never tried it.  Maybe one would have to run
>> multiple lirc daemons.
>>
>> For my current setup I specify the device using the
>> LIRC_DEVICE='name="Media Center Ed...."' syntax.
>>
>>
>
> So with 0.8.7 I was using the LIRC interface. It sounds like with 
> 0.9.0 I need to move to the devinput interface. /etc/sysconfig/lirc:
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> LIRC_DRIVER="devinput"
> LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/input/event14"
>
> But you have the udev rule to provide a stable /dev/input name. Would 
> you share that please.
>
> I'm also told that for testing I use ir-keytable instead of irw.
>

Argh... still no output from ir-keytable.

$ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc4/ (/dev/input/event14) with:
         Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
         Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
         Enabled protocols: RC-6
         Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared
         bus: 3, vendor/product: 0471:0815, version: 0x0000
         Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 33 ms

$ir-keytable -t -d /dev/input/event14
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
^C

ir-keytable -r -d /dev/input/event14
Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC RC-5-SZ SHARP 
MCE_KBD XMP

I have the devinput config file in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.