Re: Troubleshooting an off brand IT remote

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Jun 23, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Kris Bell wrote:

> To anyone out there listening:
> I'm looking for a merciful, knowledgeable individual to help me troubleshoot a usb IR remote. It seems to be working as a mouse, can move the cursor around the screen and do mouse clicks, but other buttons don't work at all. IRW doesn't seem to register any commands at all, even though I can move the cursor and click the mouse, etc. Could the computer be reading the remote as a mouse? how might I check or remedy that?
> Any help appreciated.

Pretty sure what you've got is a hardware-decoding receiver that presents itself
to the computer as an HID keyboard/mouse combo device. Its probably at least
semi-usable with lirc using devinput mode.

http://www.lirc.org/html/devinput.html has a bit of info for you.

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Jarod Wilson
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