RE: Fusion Remote MCE with LIRC

[Buzz <bu...@os...>]

> Apologies for the unsolicited message, but I saw a post on 
> sourceforge from yourself going back to August '05 about the 
> fusion remote mce.
> 
> I have the same remote on a fedora/myth box, and was just 
> wondering if you ever found a solution.

Craig,

Yes, it just needed a temporary source code modification so I could get
irrecord to generate a valid config file, but following that, lircd can be
used with out any modification/s at all.  :-)  

In Fedora, the default location and driver are often incorrect, so I edited
/etc/sysconfig/lircd and appended "--driver=dvico --device=/dev/hiddev0" to
the existing line there (if not running fedora or similar, these are just
command line parameters to lircd, wherever it's started from).

Test to make sure that you have the right /dev/xxxxx  device, by 'cat'-ing
it, and pressing buttons on the remote.  You should get random looking
binary data on the screen.  If not, hardware is faulty, or was not detected
in kernel, or you chose the wrong /dev/xxxxx file.    (sometimes
/dev/usb/hiddev0 but mine was /dev/hiddev0 )

The version of lircd binary needs to be post 0.7.x, but any recent version
should work, if you use the correct configuration files.... Personally, I
just yesterday did a "yum update lircd"  (with yum configured for the atrpms
site), and got a 0.8.x-cvs revision of lircd from atrpms.  (see
http://www.atrpms.net if you don't have atrpms setup, it's very good!)

lircd.conf:
I then re-installed my known-to-work-and-tested lircd.conf (I created some
months ago) from
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14270216 , (also avail
as the THIRD "begin remote" stanza from the link below)

If you have the non-MCE slim remote, try here for a lircd.conf  (there are
three "begin remote" stanzas, use just the FIRST for the non-MCE remote, or
the THIRD if you have the MCE remote)
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lirc/lirc/remotes/dvico/lircd.conf.fus
ionHDTV?rev=1.3&view=markup

.lircrc:
this file varies depending on what you want, and if you use the lirc support
built into mythtv or not. Some example links that might help:
googled "chris pascoe lircrc"   for use with an embedded lirc in myth
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~chrisp/Linux-DVB/DVICO/mythtv-lircrc
Googled "lircrc dvico"  - and got this one that uses irxevent (for
stand-alone lircd, even when using myth), and is what I based my lircrc off
- http://www.users.on.net/~jani/lircrc.example.DVICO-irxevent
YMMV of course.  When writing a .lircrc file, you'll want to read the
documentation on it:
http://www.lirc.org/html/index.html (especially last section of chapter 2!)


Good Luck.!
Buzz.