Re: iMON Remot Problems

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

On Aug 31, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Anders Eriksson wrote:

> ja...@wi... said:
>> Was reasonably obvious why after reading over a bit of code...  
>> Setting  the
>> ir protocol requires a device with control urb endpoints, which  
>> the  ffdc
>> devices don't have. I've fixed the code in cvs so that it'll print   
>> a warning
>> when someone tries to set the proto on a device that doesn't   
>> support it, and
>> just fall back to imon proto.
>
> Hmmm. That's alarming.
>
> I've got an ffdc + Harmony525 and the only combo I got working  
> consistently
> was in MCE mode. That is, ir_protocol=1 and install MCE emulation on  
> the
> harmony. This is on a cvs lirc as of ca 3 weeks ago.
>
> Any testing needed?

Yes, actually... Another user on the mythtv mailing lists mentioned  
this weekend that they had an ffdc device that they used exclusively  
in mce mode. It seems to be yet another case of SoundGraph putting the  
same device ID on wildly differing hardware. :\

*HOWEVER*, I believe the check added looks for a tx control endpoint,  
and if not found, then things fall back to imon proto. Since it  
appears your devices *does* have a tx control endpoint (lest the ir  
proto setting never would have took), it *should* still get past that  
check and behave as expected, but confirmation of that would be good.

On a semi-related note, I'll add that I'm using my own imon receiver  
with a harmony 880 programmed as an Antec Veris or Antec Fusion remote  
or some such thing (i.e., native imon protocol), and its actually  
working quite well. Most keys repeat more than I'd like, but someone  
from the knoppmyth team is actually talking to Logitech about  
tightening up their Antec remote profile so this doesn't happen  
anymore. So currently, with the aid of a ~/.lircrc with some  
relatively high repeat= lines for each button, I can use both my  
harmony 880 and the stock RM200 remote simultaneously (just can't hold  
any buttons on the harmony for very long or I get extra repeats).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
ja...@wi...