Linux Infrared Remote Control

I believe it is possible to make either IR remote work with any program.  I
just finished setting up the Hauppauge PVR-150 remote (grey top, black
bottom, internal #A415-HPG-A) and I can get it to split the incoming IR
signals between mplayer and a shell script I've kind of got working to
change channels on the card.

It sounds like you potentially will have 2 IR receivers (one from the
Hauppauge card) and one from the case.  Ultimately I think you could set up
either or both to receive IR signals and do the same thing or different
things.

Steps involve,
1) Getting a driver into the Linux kernel allowing you to "read" the IR
receiver.
2) Setting up one or more lircd.conf (mine are in /etc) files to "map" the
numbers coming in from the IR receiver(s) through the Linux drivers into
"ascii codes", e.g. Power, Play, Vol+, Ch-, etc.). Then one must activate
the LIRC daemon ("man lircd").
3) Setting up one (or more?) "lircrc" files (/etc/lircrc or ~/.lircrc???)
which then indicate how specific ascii command codes are to be handled by
each program which interfaces to the IR system.

So for example, I had to play around to get lircd to recognize the command
codes from the A415-HPG-A.  There are other Hauppauge controller
configuration files available on the web but none of them seemed to work for
me.  There seem to be multiple types of Hauppauge controllers circulating.

Then it took a while to figure out that lircrc controls which programs
"receive" which commands.  So playing with it one can get Vol+/- sent to
mplayer while Ch+/- gets sent to my program that interfaces to ivtv-tune.

If anyone has a Hauppauge PVR-150 which they have working with either
tvtime, xawtv (which may be between hard and very hard) or MythTV (which is
supposed to work) I would love to get a copy of their configuration files.

I will note that doing this type of hacking for people who have never done
it before is time consuming.  There doesn't seem to be "Linux IR hacking for
Dummies" available.

Robert

P.S. contact me directly if you want my configuration files.

Hi Robert,

Thanks for you comment and help.

I have two IR receivers: one PVR150 receiver and one in case.
I do not need PVR150, but only the one in case to work. On the other
hand, I would not mind getting both of these receivers to function
with my PVR150 remote.


This receiver in the case is according to the producer working only
with MCE remotes, which means that I should use in lirc "mceusb" or
"mceusb2" drivers.

I will try that today and get back to you, but I actually do not
expect to get it working, because it should function with MCE remote
and not with PVR150. There are existing MCE config files
(/etc/lircd.conf) on the net, and I know which codes ir-receiver
expects.


If I would be able to get my remote to work with the ir-receiver in
the case, there is still a question is it possible wake up the machine
with this remote, because the ir-receiver expects some predefined
codes from the power button on the MCE remote.

Thanks.

M.


2007/7/20, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury@...>:
>
> I believe it is possible to make either IR remote work with any program. =
 I
> just finished setting up the Hauppauge PVR-150 remote (grey top, black
> bottom, internal #A415-HPG-A) and I can get it to split the incoming IR
> signals between mplayer and a shell script I've kind of got working to
> change channels on the card.
>
> It sounds like you potentially will have 2 IR receivers (one from the
> Hauppauge card) and one from the case.  Ultimately I think you could set =
up
> either or both to receive IR signals and do the same thing or different
> things.
>
> Steps involve,
> 1) Getting a driver into the Linux kernel allowing you to "read" the IR
> receiver.
> 2) Setting up one or more lircd.conf (mine are in /etc) files to "map" th=
e
> numbers coming in from the IR receiver(s) through the Linux drivers into
> "ascii codes", e.g. Power, Play, Vol+, Ch-, etc.). Then one must activate
> the LIRC daemon ("man lircd").
> 3) Setting up one (or more?) "lircrc" files (/etc/lircrc or ~/.lircrc???)
> which then indicate how specific ascii command codes are to be handled by
> each program which interfaces to the IR system.
>
> So for example, I had to play around to get lircd to recognize the comman=
d
> codes from the A415-HPG-A.  There are other Hauppauge controller
> configuration files available on the web but none of them seemed to work =
for
> me.  There seem to be multiple types of Hauppauge controllers circulating=
.
>
> Then it took a while to figure out that lircrc controls which programs
> "receive" which commands.  So playing with it one can get Vol+/- sent to
> mplayer while Ch+/- gets sent to my program that interfaces to ivtv-tune.
>
> If anyone has a Hauppauge PVR-150 which they have working with either
> tvtime, xawtv (which may be between hard and very hard) or MythTV (which =
is
> supposed to work) I would love to get a copy of their configuration files=
.
>
> I will note that doing this type of hacking for people who have never don=
e
> it before is time consuming.  There doesn't seem to be "Linux IR hacking =
for
> Dummies" available.
>
> Robert
>
> P.S. contact me directly if you want my configuration files.
>


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