Re: USB IR Receivers That Work With Lirc

[Kirk B. <t0...@kb...>]

On 10/8/2015 1:13 AM, Bengt Martensson wrote:
> On 10/07/15 21:09, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>> I want to know if anyone knows of any currently available USB IR
>> receivers that just work with LIRC and a standard Linux distro. That
>> means on being plugged in they load a kernel driver and create a
>> /dev/lirc interface.
> Why the second sentence? Why do you restrict yourself to kernel-based
> drivers? There are presently a number of dynamically loaded drivers
> ("plugins") for USB receivers. There has been some development here the
> last few years (including a driver by myself), as opposed (AFAIK) to the
> kernel based stuff.
>
>
> @Stefan Lippers-Hollmann: how do you tell the difference between the
> "cool" mceusb receivers and the ones only emulating keyboard/mouse? Is
> there a reference?
>
>

I want to use ir-exec for a couple of applications. Unless I am 
mistaken, that is impossible with the keyboard-driver emulations.

I am only focused on mceusb because my one piece of hardware that has 
*continued* to work over many years is my Microsoft branded IR receiver. 
I plug it in, mceusb.ko loads and LIRC works. I have a couple of 
off-brand mceusb.ko receivers that for some reason work under CentOS 6 
and kernel 2.6.32 but fail under Fedora 21/22 and kernel 4.0/4.1.