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spookybathtub · (This post was last modified: 2015-02-04, 06:11 by spookybathtub.)

I have an Asus AT3IONT-I Deluxe system running Kodibuntu 14.1. What is required to get the Asus IR remote working? I've read about this third-party kernel module, but that was four years ago. With current Ubuntu and Kodi versions, is that still the best way to go?

**DaVu** · 2015-02-04, 10:27

Can you post a link to what remote you exactly have?

As I suppose you don't have an IR receiver yet. I would take a look for the "Flirc" dongle. It's an USB IR receiver which is recognized as an USB keyboard and because of that it works out of the box on any Kodi or OpenElec installation. no special drivers needed. Setting this thing up is done in 20 minutes (via gui). There are a lot of youtube videos around which explain the setup very well. I use it for myself with my harmony remote. And the benefit is...you can use ANY remote in the house with this dongle

spookybathtub · 2015-02-04, 19:33

I have the IR receiver and remote that comes with the motherboard. http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AT3IONTI_DELUXE/

**DaVu** · 2015-02-04, 22:03

Now the question is, if this thing is supported.

maybe a

Code:
dmesg

will tell more

spookybathtub · 2015-02-07, 22:49

The relevant lines I see in dmesg is

Code:
[    3.044096] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci

[    3.260106] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=206c

[    3.260116] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0

[    3.260123] usb 3-2: Product: MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plusf0r ASUS

[    3.260128] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: PHILIPS

[    3.276365] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina

[    3.302863] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

[    3.302872] usbhid: USB HID core driver

[    3.311542] input: PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plusf0r ASUS as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input5

[    3.312285] hid-generic 0003:0471:206C.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plusf0r ASUS] on usb-0000:00:04.0-2/input0

[   13.346144] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250

My remote is actually working with some buttons, but not all. I'm trying to figure out exactly which buttons don't work, and how to configure them. Apparently lirc is pre-installed with Kodibuntu, but it's not running.

Code:
$ ps aux | grep lirc

elliott   5001  0.0  0.0  11744   920 pts/4    S+   12:48   0:00 grep --color=auto lirc

spookybathtub · (This post was last modified: 2016-02-08, 20:40 by spookybathtub.)

The module I linked above seems to still work great with Kodi 16 and Ubuntu 14.04. I just have to reinstall it every time I update the kernel, no big deal.