Re: LIRC with Niveus USB remote

[Paul M. <pam...@ui...>]

When you load lirc_atiusb, does it recognize your remote?  If not, try adding 
the vendor/product id's to the usb device id table in lirc_atiusb.c and 
recompile/etc.  Also, load lirc_atiusb with debug=1.

-Paul

On Monday 04 October 2004 8:40 pm, John Davin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Niveus USB remote, which is basically the same as the ATI
> USB Remote Wonder. My remote:
> http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=PC-REMOTE-USB
>
> I followed these instructions for getting lirc to work with the ATI
> remote:
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/youssef_makki/remotewonder/
>
> But it doesn't work - irw does not print anything when I press keys on the
> remote.  And I have no idea what to try now.
>
> The remote is detected in USB: # lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0bc7:0005 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc.
>
>
> I installed the lirc package from the webpage and the conf files.
>
> Tests:
>
> # lircd --nodaemon
> lircd 0.7.0pre4: lircd(atiusb) ready
>
>
> Then when I run lircd, and then irw, irw just quits and kills lircd. When I
> run lircd as: lircd --device /dev/lircm
> then irw stays running, but pressing buttons on my remote does not cause
> any output at all.
>
> I have these devices: # ll /dev/lirc*
> crw-r--r--  1 root root 61, 0 Oct  4 12:05 /dev/lirc
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Oct  4 21:04 /dev/lircd=
> prw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Oct  4 12:06 /dev/lircm|
>
>
> but only /dev/lircm seems to work:
> # cat /dev/lirc*
> cat: /dev/lirc: No such device or address
> cat: /dev/lircd: No such device or address
>
>
> Any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -John
>
>
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