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Hi,

i already found a lot of input, but somehow i dont get it to run. Maybe somebody of you have it runing accordingsly to my setup and can give me some hints:

I am runing the latest XBMCUbuntu with XBMC runing in version 12.3.

Code:
lsusb: 

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 15c2:0044 SoundGraph Inc.

Code:
cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=15c2 Product=0044 Version=0002

N: Name="iMON Remote (15c2:0044)"

P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0

S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/rc/rc0/input4

U: Uniq=

H: Handlers=kbd event4

B: PROP=0

B: EV=100013

B: KEY=fff 0 0 4400000 108c0320 2d50080 0 0 30000 4 119000 4186 14000801 809e1680 0 2000000 10004002

B: MSC=10

The Remote is working but i am simply missing some keys, like numbers and skiping chapters in movies.

I know that i need to edit
/home/user/.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml
/home/user/.xbmc/userdata/kemaps/remote.xml

But i simply dont know how and it also looks like that xbmc does not get any comments because they are handled by lircd.

When i change settings in:
/etc/default/inputlirc
from:

Code:
EVENTS="/dev/input/even*"

OPTIONS=

to 

EVENTS="/dev/input/even4"

OPTIONS="-g -m 0"

i can use "irw" and see the system recognising all remote presses but than XBMC is doing nothing any more.

Where i am doing something wrong. I am sure i am just messing something up.

Thanks for your help.

event4

not

even4

You are right. I had it like that, but did not change anything.

I am somehow strugeling witht the driver and names.

when i use irw the output looks like this:

Code:
a7 0 KEY_RECORD /dev/input/event5

cf 0 KEY_PLAY /dev/input/event5

a1 0 KEY_EJECTCD /dev/input/event5

a8 0 KEY_REWIND /dev/input/event5

77 0 KEY_PAUSE /dev/input/event5

d0 0 KEY_FASTFORWARD /dev/input/event5

19c 0 KEY_PREVIOUS /dev/input/event5

80 0 KEY_STOP /dev/input/event5

197 0 KEY_NEXT /dev/input/event5

e 0 KEY_BACKSPACE /dev/input/event5

39 0 KEY_SPACE /dev/input/event5

7f 0 KEY_COMPOSE /dev/input/event5

1b6 0 KEY_CONTEXT_MENU /dev/input/event5

110 0 BTN_MOUSE /dev/input/event5

111 0 BTN_RIGHT /dev/input/event5

1c 0 KEY_ENTER /dev/input/event5

6a 0 KEY_RIGHT /dev/input/event5

67 0 KEY_UP /dev/input/event5

6c 0 KEY_DOWN /dev/input/event5

69 0 KEY_LEFT /dev/input/event5

6a 0 KEY_RIGHT /dev/input/event5

1c 0 KEY_ENTER /dev/input/event5

110 0 BTN_MOUSE /dev/input/event5

111 0 BTN_RIGHT /dev/input/event5

1 0 KEY_ESC /dev/input/event5

a2 0 KEY_EJECTCLOSECD /dev/input/event5

9a 0 KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS /dev/input/event5

cc 0 KEY_DASHBOARD /dev/input/event5

e2 0 KEY_MEDIA /dev/input/event5

192 0 KEY_CHANNELUP /dev/input/event5

193 0 KEY_CHANNELDOWN /dev/input/event5

73 0 KEY_VOLUMEUP /dev/input/event5

72 0 KEY_VOLUMEDOWN /dev/input/event5

167 0 KEY_TIME /dev/input/event5

71 0 KEY_MUTE /dev/input/event5

201 0 KEY_NUMERIC_1 /dev/input/event5

202 0 KEY_NUMERIC_2 /dev/input/event5

203 0 KEY_NUMERIC_3 /dev/input/event5

204 0 KEY_NUMERIC_4 /dev/input/event5

205 0 KEY_NUMERIC_5 /dev/input/event5

206 0 KEY_NUMERIC_6 /dev/input/event5

207 0 KEY_NUMERIC_7 /dev/input/event5

208 0 KEY_NUMERIC_8 /dev/input/event5

209 0 KEY_NUMERIC_9 /dev/input/event5

20a 0 KEY_NUMERIC_STAR /dev/input/event5

200 0 KEY_NUMERIC_0 /dev/input/event5

20b 0 KEY_NUMERIC_POUND /dev/input/event5

189 0 KEY_VIDEO /dev/input/event5

188 0 KEY_AUDIO /dev/input/event5

1ba 0 KEY_IMAGES /dev/input/event5

179 0 KEY_TV /dev/input/event5

9c 0 KEY_BOOKMARKS /dev/input/event5

d4 0 KEY_CAMERA /dev/input/event5

174 0 KEY_ZOOM /dev/input/event5

177 0 KEY_SCREEN /dev/input/event5

185 0 KEY_DVD /dev/input/event5

8b 0 KEY_MENU /dev/input/event5

172 0 KEY_SUBTITLE /dev/input/event5

170 0 KEY_LANGUAGE /dev/input/event5

I know that the numbers in the front are representing the mappings of the default linux mapping, but how do i map these to xbmc keys?

Also when i have nothing set in "inputlirc", "irw" is not working and i dont know which mapping is used than.

Sorry i am a bit clueless with what to start.

By the way, i dont know why it was ~2h ago event5 and now it is event4, i did not unplug or disconnect anything.

Then all it says there is input5 not input4... idk, look at other threads for this hardware its been covered multiple times.

I dont have any better answer as I dont have experience with this hardware.

Trail and error and i think i got what i want:

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf
no changes, not configured

/etc/default/inputlirc

Code:
# Options to be passed to inputlirc.

EVENTS="/dev/input/event5"

OPTIONS="-g -m 0"

.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml

Code:
<lircmap>

    <remote device="/dev/input/event5">

        <left>KEY_LEFT</left>

.......

The important part was to set the Lircmap.xml Remote device to the correct setting. and after an reboot it is working.

Now i can start to play with the keymappings.

YEA i got it running and i have the feeling that i now know what i am doing :-)

My remote:

Because it took my ~1 week to figure that out and i had to put a lot of google search together i want to put my implementation into this how-to

My config looks like that:

lsusb

Code:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 15c2:0044 SoundGraph Inc.

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Code:
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=15c2 Product=0044 Version=0002

N: Name="iMON Remote (15c2:0044)"

P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0

S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/rc/rc0/input4

U: Uniq=

H: Handlers=kbd event5

B: PROP=0

B: EV=100013

B: KEY=fff 0 0 4400000 108c0320 2d50080 0 0 30000 4 119000 4186 14000801 809e1680 0 2000000 10004002

B: MSC=10

to get XBMC somehow aware of what the remote can do i needed to start with this:

/etc/default/inputlirc

Code:
EVENTS="/dev/input/evet5"

OPTIONS="-g -m 0"

In my XBMCUbuntu based on XBMC 12.2 there was no Lircmap.xml and also no Keymap.xml available because of that i needed to create them, until i found that i actually could download them from XBMC Git and they are working:

1. Lircmap.xml is located at:

Code:
/home/"user"/.xbmc/userdata/

I downloaded it from here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...ircmap.xml

To be honest i forgot if the irw was working already, but i also remember that i

Code:
apt-get install inputlirc

The Remote that came with my IMON VFD is the RM200. I looks like that this is the same coming also with Antec cases.
My "irw" output looks like the one above. There for the i am using the following part of the Lircmap.xml:

Before the remote device looked like that:

Code:
<remote device="Antec_Veris_RM200">

                <stop>KEY_STOP</stop>

                <pause>KEY_PAUSE</pause>

                <forward>KEY_FASTFORWARD</forward>

                <reverse>KEY_REWIND</reverse>

                <left>KEY_LEFT</left>

                <right>KEY_RIGHT</right>

                <up>KEY_UP</up>

                <down>KEY_DOWN</down>

                <select>KEY_ENTER</select>

                <pageplus>KEY_CHANNELUP</pageplus>

                <pageminus>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</pageminus>

                <back>KEY_BACKSPACE</back>

                <menu>KEY_MENU</menu>

                <play>KEY_PLAY</play>

                <info>Go</info>

                <skipplus>next</skipplus>

                <skipminus>prev</skipminus>

                <display>FullScreen</display>

                <start>applauncher</start>

                <record>KEY_RECORD</record>

                <volumeplus>KEY_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>

                <volumeminus>KEY_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>

                <mute>KEY_MUTE</mute>

                <power>KEY_POWER</power>

                <myvideo>KEY_VIDEO</myvideo>

                <mymusic>KEY_AUDIO</mymusic>

                <mypictures>KEY_PHOTO</mypictures>

                <mytv>KEY_TV</mytv>

                <one>KEY_1</one>

                <two>KEY_2</two>

                <three>KEY_3</three>

                <four>KEY_4</four>

                <five>KEY_5</five>

                <six>KEY_6</six>

                <seven>KEY_7</seven>

                <eight>KEY_8</eight>

                <nine>KEY_9</nine>

                <zero>KEY_0</zero>

                <star>Star</star>

                <hash>Hash</hash>

                <playlist>KEY_BOOKMARKS</playlist>

                <teletext>Thumbnail</teletext>

                <title>TaskSwitcher</title>                

        </remote>

I changed it to the below one, according to my "irw" output

Code:
<remote device="/dev/input/event5">

        <stop>KEY_STOP</stop>

        <pause>KEY_PAUSE</pause>

        <forward>KEY_FASTFORWARD</forward>

        <reverse>KEY_REWIND</reverse>

        <left>KEY_LEFT</left>

        <right>KEY_RIGHT</right>

        <up>KEY_UP</up>

        <down>KEY_DOWN</down>

        <select>KEY_ENTER</select>

        <pageplus>KEY_CHANNELUP</pageplus>

        <pageminus>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</pageminus>

        <back>KEY_BACKSPACE</back>

        <back>KEY_ESC</back>

        <menu>KEY_MENU</menu>

        <play>KEY_PLAY</play>

        <info>Go</info>

        <skipplus>next</skipplus>

        <skipminus>prev</skipminus>

        <display>FullScreen</display>

        <start>applauncher</start>

        <record>KEY_RECORD</record>

        <volumeplus>KEY_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>

        <volumeminus>KEY_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>

        <mute>KEY_MUTE</mute>

        <power>KEY_POWER</power>

        <myvideo>KEY_VIDEO</myvideo>

        <mymusic>KEY_AUDIO</mymusic>

        <mypictures>KEY_PHOTO</mypictures>

        <mytv>KEY_TV</mytv>

        <one>KEY_NUMERIC_1</one>

        <two>KEY_NUMERIC_2</two>

        <three>KEY_NUMERIC_3</three>

        <four>KEY_NUMERIC_4</four>

        <five>KEY_NUMERIC_5</five>

        <six>KEY_NUMERIC_6</six>

        <seven>KEY_NUMERIC_7</seven>

        <eight>KEY_NUMERIC_8</eight>

        <nine>KEY_NUMERIC_9</nine>

        <zero>KEY_NUMERIC_0</zero>

        <star>Star</star>

        <hash>Hash</hash>

        <playlist>KEY_BOOKMARKS</playlist>

        <teletext>Thumbnail</teletext>

        <title>TaskSwitcher</title>        

    </remote>

I did not try yet if i realy need the Keymap.xml but i also put this where it belongs to. Again there was no file in my system by default so i also downloaded one:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...remote.xml

I just renamed it Keymap.xml and put it in:
/home/"user"/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps/

I did no changes in this file, so i dont put any code here.

Result:
I can move back in the menues by using the "Esc" and the "back arrow" button, also the number keys are working.

I am happy

I hope that helps somebody

Nice

You should consider whacking this in wiki, so truly is accessible to all users easily. Leaving it here will indeed get buried and lost.
You can easily put all this in wiki in own page in Category:How-to (wiki) or something and point back to this thread as discussion/further info type thing.

Just a suggestion. Wink

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