[Strandvasker]

I'm trying to get xbmc to respond to my remote control. I'm using a remote from an old Panasonic VCR and my HDHomerun as ir reciever.

I've followed the instructions on http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/ins...ons/mythtv the lirc section and gotten that to work, so now when I press the arrow and ok buttons on my remote, IRW says:

000040040d00a1ac 00 KEY_UP thomas6
000040040d00616c 00 KEY_DOWN thomas6
000040040d00111c 00 KEY_RIGHT thomas6
000040040d00414c 00 KEY_OK thomas6
000040040d00e1ec 00 KEY_LEFT thomas6

Thomas6 is the name of the config file I created with irrecord, my name is Thomas and I got it working in the sixth try..

Question is, how do I get xbmc to respond to the remote?

[Strandvasker]

I'm frustrated beyond words with this crap..

I got hold of an usb ir reciever to see if it was the udp connection to the hdhomerun that was messing up things.

I uninstalled lirc and installed it again to get a fresh start, when it came to picking reciever and transmitter I chose "custom" as my transciever wasn't on the list.

Step by step I did the following:

1) sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop (to stop lirc)
2) sudo mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 (to test the connection, worked fine)
3) sudo irrecord -d /dev/lirc0 panaremote (worked like a charm, added KEY_UP, KEY_DOWN, KEY_LEFT, KEY_RIGHT and KEY_OK just to have something to work with)
4) Made a dir called /usr/share/lirc/remotes/panaremote and copied my new panaremote config file there
5) Copied my new panaremote config file to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf too
6) sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start (to start lirc again)
7) Tried irw but it gave me a "no such file or directory" error
8) sudo lircd -d /dev/lirc0
9) Tried irw again and it gave me lines like:
0000000000000001 00 KEY_UP panaremote
0000000000000001 01 KEY_UP panaremote
0000000000000002 00 KEY_DOWN panaremote
..and so on..

I terminated irw and continued with:

10) sudo gedit /usr/share/xbmc/system/Lircmap.xml, copied the mceusb section, changed the name to panaremote and modified some of the strings like this:

<lircmap>
<remote device="panaremote">
<play>Play</play>
<pause>Pause</pause>
<stop>Stop</stop>
<forward>Forward</forward>
<reverse>Rewind</reverse>
<left>KEY_LEFT</left>
<right>KEY_RIGHT</right>
<up>KEY_UP</up>
<down>KEY_DOWN</down>
<select>KEY_OK</select>
<pageplus>ChanUp</pageplus>
<pageminus>ChanDown</pageminus>

So far, so good, but my XBMC couldn't care less..

..any suggestions? Do I need to add my commands to a keymap file somewhere or is that taken care of by Lircmap.xml ??

My XBMC version is 9.11 R26018 and it's running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

[Strandvasker]

And apparently you guys couldn't care less either..

I managed to solve the problem, but I guess it's now my time not to care enough to post the solution..

[fasteddy]

I managed to solve the problem, but I guess it's now my time not to care enough to post the solution..

Classy...

[Strandvasker]

Classy...

Whoohoo, a response! Guess the forum isn't completely dead anyway..

I view of this recent discovery of life in the forum, I've reconsidered and decided to post the solution to my problem..

The thing that gave me a hard time was /etc/lirc/hardware.conf. Even though I'd made a custom remote file, hardware.conf still loaded the one for mceusb.

My current and now functioning hardwrae.conf looks like this:

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER="default"
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Chosen IR Transmitter
TRANSMITTER="Microsoft Windows Media Center V2 (usb) : Direct TV Receiver"
TRANSMITTER_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_mceusb2"
TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE="/dev/lirc1"
TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF="directtv/general.conf"
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Enable lircd
START_LIRCD="true"

#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
#START_LIRCMD="false"

#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
LOAD_MODULES="true"

# Default configuration files for your hardware if any
LIRCMD_CONF=""

#Forcing noninteractive reconfiguration
#If lirc is to be reconfigured by an external application
#that doesn't have a debconf frontend available, the noninteractive
#frontend can be invoked and set to parse REMOTE and TRANSMITTER
#It will then populate all other variables without any user input
#If you would like to configure lirc via standard methods, be sure
#to leave this set to "false"
FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"
START_LIRCMD=""

I hope it's of use to others in a similar situation..