Configuring the remote control unit for the Astrometa USB stick

Marko Mäkelä <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.vdr
Message-ID <20171203191631.GA10263@hp>
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 09:57:37PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>Now I will only have to figure out how to get the remote control to 
>work.

The Astrometa driver in the Linux kernel exposes a /dev/input/event 
device that did not react to any of my remote control units, including 
the one that was bundled with the USB stick.

I would guess that slightly different devices with the same USB ID have 
been bundled with different types of remote control units, and the Linux 
kernel might support a different type of RCU.

It turns out that /dev/lirc0 would expose the raw pulses. I configured 
LIRC so that I can use the RC5 based unit that was bundled with the old 
Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card. It is a much better choice; an almost perfect 
match for VDR.

I may post configurations later when I have completed the full setup. My 
plan is to set up a Raspbian-based system that records on the local 
MicroSD card but can also access a USB hard disk or an NFS server that 
would be powered up on demand.

	Marko

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