Linux Infrared Remote Control

Quoting AlanM <groups@...>:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new here, I hope I am not asking questions that have been asked lots 
> already :) I am having a few problems getting lirc and imon to work and 
> was wondering if anyone can point me in the right kind of direction or 
> have some suggestions about how I can get any further..
> 
> I compiled lircd for the imon refering to the RPM src for my curent 
> kernel (2.6.11-1.27_FC3). All built and made fine. I modprobe the 
> devices and get /dev/lirc etc. If I run mode2 I get a good looking set 
> of values up (similar to what I have seen in other articles)
> 
> I run lircd and no errors. Then I fire up irw, but see -nothing- at all!
> 
> I enabled debug and see in the lircd log file as below. It seems to go 
> wrong on "bad pre data". Could this be a mis-configured lircd.conf file 
> or something more sinister? The lircd.conf was inserted at install and 
> is the same as the imon one in remotes/
> 
> I also have been looking at syslog and the debug is very verbose and I 
> can't really make head nor tail of it (!)
> 
> Please help
> 
> thanks
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> Jun 29 19:35:59 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: caught signal
> Jun 29 19:36:54 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: started server socket
> Jun 29 19:36:54 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: parsing remote
> Jun 29 19:36:54 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: parsing IMON_MultiMedian remote
> Jun 29 19:36:54 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: config file read
> Jun 29 19:36:54 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: lircd(imon) ready
> Jun 29 19:37:46 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: registering local client
> Jun 29 19:37:46 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> Jun 29 19:37:46 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: driver supports receiving
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: trying "IMON_MultiMedian" remote
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: sync
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: header
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: pre: 108
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: code: 21de
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: bad pre data
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: failed "IMON_MultiMedian" remote
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: decoding failed for all remotes
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: trying "IMON_MultiMedian" remote
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: sync
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: header
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: failed on bit 1
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: failed on pre_data
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: failed on pre
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: failed "IMON_MultiMedian" remote
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: decoding failed for all remotes
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: trying "IMON_MultiMedian" remote
> Jun 29 19:37:52 fe-lounge lircd 0.7.1: sync
> 
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Are you SURE its a Imon-Multimedian remote ? if its the latest ones, then that
is an IMON 'PAD' remote, and right now, requires patching of lirc and a
different config file..

The patch can be found at: http://stuff.wishie.net/lirc-imon-pad.patch
My lircd.conf for the remote can be found at http://stuff.wishie.net/lircd.conf

The above patch (for lirc 0.7.1) allows the 'PAD' to be used for
up/down/left/right movements. Without the patch, that PAD is pretty much useless.

Hi,

thanks for the reply. I have got a long way since then, thanks to 
Christoph, I selected the lircd.conf.imon-rsc config file and now I am 
getting the events from all butons and the pad in irw as expected. I 
have set up lircrc (for mythtv) and this works nicely (if anyone wants a 
copy of my lircrc let me know.. the only thing is I have mapped channel 
change to pad up and down and at the moment there are many events with 
no repeat count set - not good :)

I have one problem though - events are not always received and some of 
the time things hang for a while before starting to work again. Any idea 
why this may be? I have tried all the obvious things - batteries in 
remote(!) loading - nicing lirc etc yet it's still intermittent. If I 
get a freeze and restart irw it works OK and mode2 always shows events 
so I guess its in lirc somewhere.

I am also getting loads of debug in syslog (messages) even though debug 
is definitely off and i'm not using -D , I don't know if it's related.

Has anyone seen behaviour like this and has some suggestions as to what 
I can do?

Incidentally, I tried applying the patch and using  
http://stuff.wishie.net/lircd.conf but then I did not receive any events.


please help

cheers

Alan

wishie@... wrote:

>Quoting AlanM <groups@...>:
>
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>
>Are you SURE its a Imon-Multimedian remote ? if its the latest ones, then that
>is an IMON 'PAD' remote, and right now, requires patching of lirc and a
>different config file..
>
>The patch can be found at: http://stuff.wishie.net/lirc-imon-pad.patch
>My lircd.conf for the remote can be found at http://stuff.wishie.net/lircd.conf
>
>The above patch (for lirc 0.7.1) allows the 'PAD' to be used for
>up/down/left/right movements. Without the patch, that PAD is pretty much useless.
>
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