USB MCE-like remote

[Bob Cunningham <FlyMyPG@gm...>]

A confused lirc newbie asks:

I have a $10 USB IR remote with "PHX01RN" printed on the remote.  When plugged in, it appears as a second keyboard.  Some of the keys output the expected characters (e.g., 0-9), others output control characters and/or multiple characters, and the rest are intercepted by X11 (open, close, power, etc.).

How do I configure things so I can bypass X11 and convert the output to what I need for MythTV?

Is lirc the right tool for this?

OS:
   Fedora 12 (freshly upgraded from F11) with kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE

$ lircd --version
   lircd 0.8.6

lsusb output:
   ID0755:2626 Aureal Semiconductor

dmesg output:
   usb 2-1.2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 25
   usb 2-1.2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
   usb 2-1.2: config 1 has 2 interfaces, different from the descriptor's value: 1
   usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0755, idProduct=2626
   usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
   usb 2-1.2: Product: P-01RN
   usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: cypress
   usb 2-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   input: cypress P-01RN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input8
   generic-usb 0003:0755:2626.0009: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [cypress P-01RN] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0
   generic-usb: probe of 0003:0755:2626.000A failed with error -22


TIA,

-BobC

USB MCE-like remote

[Bob Cunningham <FlyMyPG@gm...>]

A confused lirc newbie asks:

I have a $10 USB IR remote with "PHX01RN" printed on the remote.  When plugged in, it appears as a second keyboard.  Some of the keys output the expected characters (e.g., 0-9), others output control characters and/or multiple characters, and the rest are intercepted by X11 (open, close, power, etc.).

How do I configure things so I can bypass X11 and convert the output to what I need for MythTV?

Is lirc the right tool for this?

OS:
   Fedora 12 (freshly upgraded from F11) with kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE

$ lircd --version
   lircd 0.8.6

lsusb output:
   ID0755:2626 Aureal Semiconductor

dmesg output:
   usb 2-1.2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 25
   usb 2-1.2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
   usb 2-1.2: config 1 has 2 interfaces, different from the descriptor's value: 1
   usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0755, idProduct=2626
   usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
   usb 2-1.2: Product: P-01RN
   usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: cypress
   usb 2-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   input: cypress P-01RN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input8
   generic-usb 0003:0755:2626.0009: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [cypress P-01RN] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0
   generic-usb: probe of 0003:0755:2626.000A failed with error -22


TIA,

-BobC

USB MCE-like remote

[Bob Cunningham <rcunning@ac...>]

A confused lirc newbie asks:

I have a $10 USB IR remote with "PHX01RN" printed on the remote.  When plugged in, it appears as a second keyboard.  Some of the keys output the expected characters (e.g., 0-9), others output control characters and/or multiple characters, and the rest are intercepted by X11 (open, close, power, etc.).

How do I configure things so I can bypass X11 and convert the output to what I need for MythTV?

Is lirc the right tool for this?

OS:
   Fedora 12 (freshly upgraded from F11) with kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE

$ lircd --version
   lircd 0.8.6

lsusb output:
   ID0755:2626 Aureal Semiconductor

dmesg output:
   usb 2-1.2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 25
   usb 2-1.2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
   usb 2-1.2: config 1 has 2 interfaces, different from the descriptor's value: 1
   usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0755, idProduct=2626
   usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
   usb 2-1.2: Product: P-01RN
   usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: cypress
   usb 2-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   input: cypress P-01RN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input8
   generic-usb 0003:0755:2626.0009: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [cypress P-01RN] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0
   generic-usb: probe of 0003:0755:2626.000A failed with error -22


TIA,

-BobC

Re: USB MCE-like remote

[Jarod Wilson <jarod@wi...>]

On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Bob Cunningham wrote:

> A confused lirc newbie asks:
> 
> I have a $10 USB IR remote with "PHX01RN" printed on the remote.  When plugged in, it appears as a second keyboard.  Some of the keys output the expected characters (e.g., 0-9), others output control characters and/or multiple characters, and the rest are intercepted by X11 (open, close, power, etc.).
> 
> How do I configure things so I can bypass X11 and convert the output to what I need for MythTV?
> 
> Is lirc the right tool for this?

It can be. You want the lircd.conf.devinput config file, and then run lircd with --driver=devinput, and --device=/dev/input/{by-path or by-name}/{IR receiver's unique ID}. /dev/input/eventX works too, but the device can move around, so its best to use by-path/* or by-name/*.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...

Re: USB MCE-like remote

[Bob Cunningham <FlyMyPG@gm...>]

On 11/20/2009 06:05 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Bob Cunningham wrote:
>
>> A confused lirc newbie asks:
>>
>> I have a $10 USB IR remote with "PHX01RN" printed on the remote.  When plugged in, it appears as a second keyboard.  Some of the keys output the expected characters (e.g., 0-9), others output control characters and/or multiple characters, and the rest are intercepted by X11 (open, close, power, etc.).
>>
>> How do I configure things so I can bypass X11 and convert the output to what I need for MythTV?
>>
>> Is lirc the right tool for this?
>
> It can be. You want the lircd.conf.devinput config file, and then run lircd with --driver=devinput, and --device=/dev/input/{by-path or by-name}/{IR receiver's unique ID}. /dev/input/eventX works too, but the device can move around, so its best to use by-path/* or by-name/*.

I'll try that this weekend.

Since this remote issues two characters for some remote keys (the first of the pair generally being an escape), is lirc stateful enough to be able to combine a fast pair of different characters into a single IR event?  What about a repeating string of such character pairs (button hold)?

Thanks!

-BobC

Re: USB MCE-like remote

[Jarod Wilson <jarod@wi...>]

On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Bob Cunningham wrote:

> On 11/20/2009 06:05 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Bob Cunningham wrote:
>> 
>>> A confused lirc newbie asks:
>>> 
>>> I have a $10 USB IR remote with "PHX01RN" printed on the remote.  When plugged in, it appears as a second keyboard.  Some of the keys output the expected characters (e.g., 0-9), others output control characters and/or multiple characters, and the rest are intercepted by X11 (open, close, power, etc.).
>>> 
>>> How do I configure things so I can bypass X11 and convert the output to what I need for MythTV?
>>> 
>>> Is lirc the right tool for this?
>> 
>> It can be. You want the lircd.conf.devinput config file, and then run lircd with --driver=devinput, and --device=/dev/input/{by-path or by-name}/{IR receiver's unique ID}. /dev/input/eventX works too, but the device can move around, so its best to use by-path/* or by-name/*.
> 
> I'll try that this weekend.
> 
> Since this remote issues two characters for some remote keys (the first of the pair generally being an escape), is lirc stateful enough to be able to combine a fast pair of different characters into a single IR event?  What about a repeating string of such character pairs (button hold)?

Not a clue on either count, I'm afraid. Though I think I actually have played with a similar remote. Attaching lirc to it using the devinput driver, I simply had it ignore the escape sequence and only process the following key, which worked just fine.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...