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- myrison - 2010-03-22

Th3R00st3r Wrote:irrecord works by running

but I don't know where it's putting a config file!

irw doesn't pick up the codes which leaves me to believe it's my lircd.conf or hardware.conf files.
Anyone have USBUIRT working with a Harmony Remote that I could use their .conf files as a template?

check this thread for some ideas. It has a pretty good description of the entire process as well as some troubleshooting.

The relevant section:
Quote:Follow the instructions on the screen and when you are finished you should have a new config file "mceusb" or "mcesub.conf" in your current directory. Just copy this config file to your /etc/lirc/ directory:

I checked this myself and it does drop the config file with the name you specify into the directory you are in when you begin the irrecord process.

- Th3R00st3r - 2010-03-22

OK thanks for the tip. What I may end up doing is buying a Microsoft Media Center Edition remote & USB dongle (as I am also setting a Revo up for a friend) and using it to create the files I need. Then I can program my harmony remote to emulate the Microsoft Media Center Edition remote and then give the Microsoft Media Center Edition remote to my friend..

- myrison - 2010-03-22

Yep, that should work if you can't get it working as is (or just don't care to spend the time troubleshooting since you have to get another remote anyway)

- Th3R00st3r - 2010-03-23

I am only posting this here as I used the Revo image from the first post and finally got the last part working...

I found my Microsoft IR reciever I had from a while back and am using a Xbox 360 Universal remote.

I checked to see if my IR Reciever was recognized.


Code:
sudo lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0471:0815 Philips eHome Infrared Receiver

so I knew it recognized it.

Then I ran irrecord

Code:
sudo irrecord -d /dev/lirc0  /etc/lirc/mce360.conf

and it allowed me to record the button presses by following the on screen instructions.

I copied the recorded file to the lircd.conf file:
Code:
sudo cp /etc/lirc/mce360.conf /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

Change the remote name in my hardware.conf
Code:
REMOTE="Microsoft_Xbox360"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_mceusb2"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

TRANSMITTER="None"
TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
START_LIRCD="true"
START_LIRCMD=""
LOAD_MODULES=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"
Changed the name in my lircd.conf to match
Code:
# TV button sends no signal and toggles Xbox 360/TV mode. TV mode can be
# signals for any device the remote supports. Volume Up, Volume Down and
# Mute always use the TV mode while the Xbox live guide button always sends
# to the xbox.

begin remote

  name  Microsoft_Xbox360
  bits           13
  flags RC6|CONST_LENGTH
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  header       2682   906
  one           438   451
  zero          438   451
  pre_data_bits   24
  pre_data       0x1BFF80
  gap          107066
  toggle_bit_mask 0x8000
  rc6_mask    0x100000000


      begin codes
          OpenClose                0x8BD7
          XboxFancyButton          0x0B9B
          OnOff                    0x8BF3
          Stop                     0x0BE6
          Pause                    0x8BE7
          Rewind                   0x0BEA
          FastForward              0x8BEB
          Prev                     0x0BE4
          Next                     0x8BE5
          Play                     0x0BE9
          Display                  0x8BB0
          Title                    0x0BAE
          DVD_Menu                 0x8BDB
          Back                     0x0BDC
          Info                     0x8BF0
          UpArrow                  0x0BE1
          LeftArrow                0x8BDF
          RightArrow               0x0BDE
          DownArrow                0x8BE0
          OK                       0x0BDD
          Y                        0x8BD9
          X                        0x0B97
          A                        0x8B99
          B                        0x0BDA
          PgDown                   0x0B92
          PgUp                     0x0B93

          VolDown              0x0bee
          VolUp                0x0bef
      Mute               0x0bf1
      TV                       0x0bb9

          Start                    0x0BF2
          Play                     0x8BE9
          Enter                    0x0BF4
          Record                   0x8BE8
          Clear                    0x0BF5
          1                        0x8BFE
          2                        0x0BFD
          3                        0x8BFC
          4                        0x0BFB
          5                        0x8BFA
          6                        0x0BF9
          7                        0x8BF8
          8                        0x0BF7
          9                        0x8BF6
          100                      0x0BE2
          0                        0x8BFF
          Reload                   0x8BE3
      end codes

end remote

Ran

Code:
sudo irw

and lo and behold I saw button codes when I pressed them..I about crapped myself..

I ran
Code:
sudo reboot

and restarted the machine. Xbmc came up on the monitor and I started pressing up...nothing..down...nothing..any button..nothing...!

SOOO I figured I had to get the Lircmap.xml and Keymap.xml files configured to map the lirc remote codes to the xbmc codes. I didn't have these files in ~/USER/.xbmc/userdata/ so I copied the ones from this post and created them. Rebooted the Revo and Viola! Remote is now working...

Thank you to everyone..this was very difficult as all the different parts were scattered about the forums..My Revo is now useable from the couch! I hope my post helps others through the same issues I had. Most of it was my inexperience in liunx commands and directory structure.

- myrison - 2010-03-23

Thanks for posting back Rooster. Congrats on getting it working!

- tolax - 2010-03-25

Did anyone get round to creating a cut down version of the partimage file? (Not sure if it was lost in the great crash of '010'). I'm interested to playing around with this but I boot my system from a 16Gb flash drive and would prefer to image it to that.

Tolax

- myrison - 2010-03-25

Nope, hasn't happened and I haven't heard anyone volunteering to, sorry.

- Bahndit - 2010-03-29

Myrison,

What version of the SVN are you running on your box? Sadly, the image that is being used on this thread is only R26018 and doesn't contain the fix for MPEG2 video in MKV containers that you helped identify on TRAC.

Thanks,
Bahndit

- myrison - 2010-03-29

Hi Bahndit. I settled on version 27287, which includes the MKV audio sync fix as well as the fix that allows for PGS subs to be viewed in MKV files.

I haven't noticed any negative effects of that SVN, so I just stuck with it as I didn't need many of the later changes that came in SVN after that revision.

- Bahndit - 2010-03-30

Edit: Nevermind, I finally figured it out.

Myrison,
Do you know how to check out an older SVN, ie 27287, and use it instead of the latest. I know how to check out the latest and compile it myself but I don't know how to use older revisions. If I can get something solid put together maybe I can put up a newer image for this thread. Thanks for your help in advance.

Sincerely,
Bahndit

- myrison - 2010-03-30

Just for others who are interested:

Code:
> svn update -r 27287


Would do what Bahndit was asking about.

- Th3R00st3r - 2010-03-30

I use utorrent to grab tv shows that I may have missed and\or not recorded.
Is utorrent an option with this setup if it boots directly into XBMC?
Is there a way to have utorrent running and manage it through the utorent web interface? or do I need to manage that from another pc?

- myrison - 2010-03-30

Sorry, I'm not familiar with utorrent. If it runs in Linux and requires a GUI to operate, then you could change the setup to autostart GDM (the GUI) when the machine boots, and then setup an autostart of utorrent from GDM.

You'd be adding the load of running both the GUI and Utorrent on the background though, so it might introduce video judder or other side effects to have more things going on in the background than just running XBMC.

- Th3R00st3r - 2010-03-30

ok, nevermind then. I'll just have to run utorrent on another machine and map the external usb on the Revo to load the files. Thanks!

- matt456 - 2010-04-02

Can anyone repost the xbmcbuild.zip with the screenshots please? rapidshare is claiming the limit is hit Sad

Cheers,
Matt