Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR400: devevent, lircd, irw working irexec, ircat, etc not (Lenny)

[Russell J. <rus...@gm...>]

2009/8/15 Christoph Bartelmus <li...@ba...>

> Hi!
>
> Russell Jones "rus...@gm..." wrote:
> [...]
> > Then I tried lirc. The device is a devevent type, so I also installed
> > inputlirc, which seems to be necessary.
>
> No, inputlirc is the most superfluous sw I know. Pls get rid of it.
>
OK, I'll give that a go.

>
> > After editing lircd.conf and
> > hardware.conf, lircd started OK.
>
> Looking at the irw output, you are using inputlirc, not lirc.

Right

>
>
> > I played about with the lirc ir* commands,
> > but found that only irw would give any output. irexec, ircat, etc output
> > nothing.
>
> Because the remote and key names you see with irw are different from what
> you configured in .lircrc.

Some of them were named that way though... from looking at examples, the
KEY_ part is not required, right? Some of the others were from the standard
Hauppage /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

>
> > I disabled device detection by the HAL as described here:
> > http://www.lirc.org/html/devinput.html. I wasn't able to make much sense
> of
> > the output of xev beyond there only being a response from those keys
> > mappable in System|Preferences|Keyboard Shortcuts
>
> If some key don't work there, it's the kernel drivers fault.
> Start lircd with the config file found at:
> http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
> and adjust your .lircrc.

OK, will have a look at that.

Thanks for the pointers.

Russell