Is there a test program of some sort?

[Richard C. <pj...@ec...>]

I've been trying to get a remote to work with MythTV from a macbook's infrared device.  I think I have it set up correctly.  I've looked all over MythTV's setup, and tried searching the web, but there doesn't seem to be any indication of how I might tell MythTV to use Lirc, or how I might tell it which button I want to do what, so I guess maybe it's supposed to just work, but it doesn't.

So the natural next step seems to be to verify that Lirc is working.  lircd loads without complaint, but aside from that, I can't figure out how to verify that it is actually doing anything.  I tried "cat /dev/lircd" but that simply results in "cat: /dev/lircd: No such device or address," but then it is a fifo rather than a normal device file, so for all I know that is expected behavior.  

Does there exist some simple test program that will simply connect to lircd and print out any remote control signals that are detected?



File:  /etc/conf.d/lircd (comment lines excluded)

LIRCD_OPTS="-H macmini -d /dev/hiddev0"



File:  /etc/lircd.conf   

begin remote

  name  APPLE_MACBOOK31
  bits            8
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  one             0     0
  zero            0     0
  pre_data_bits   24
  pre_data       0x87EE46
  gap          211982
  toggle_bit_mask 0x0

      begin codes
          VOLUP                    0x0A
          VOLDOWN                  0x0C
          BACKWARD                 0x09
          FORWARD                  0x06
          PLAY                     0x05
          MENU                     0x03
      end codes

end remote