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Using XBMC in the version that was installed with Ubuntu 10.10...

Yesterday my wireless remote arrived ...

http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/MzIyODcyOTk...r_X10.html

This remote is sold in germany by Pollin-Elektronik. It uses a 433MHz-system for transmission. It is a medion-product, propably sold with ALDI-computers, now available for about 8 euros.

I have found many things in google, and after some hours i got the first results.

The first problem was that XBMC did not recognize any lirc, something had changed in lirc, so the startup-command for xbmc had to be changed to:

xbmc --lircdev /var/run/lirc/lircd

I changed this for the icon and the autostart-command i had inserted, then my remote was recognized by xbmc.

The second problem was that i could not get the "back"-key to work. The command bound to that key was written with two upper case characters. After hours of searching i tried to change all characters to lower case, and yes, that was the solution...

Now all functions work nearly as expected. The only thing is that when i use my normal keyboard, the "Backspace"-key works in every circumstance, the back-button of the remote does not. I can exit the fullscreen-video with the backspace-key, the video keeps on running as a mini-creen, i can scroll the filelist then. I will try to search the keyboard-xml-file for the solution of that thing.

I am writing this on my windows-computer, but will upload my lirc-configs and my xml-files when i start my mediacenter today or tomorow, so be patient Smile

I will add a list of links to some websites i have used, too ...

My config-files:

hardware.conf in /etc/lirc/

Code:
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

#

#Chosen Remote Control

REMOTE="pollinx10"

REMOTE_MODULES=""

REMOTE_DRIVER="atilibusb"

REMOTE_DEVICE=""

REMOTE_SOCKET=""

REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="atiusb/lircd.conf.atilibusb"

REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Chosen IR Transmitter

TRANSMITTER="None"

TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""

TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""

TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""

TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""

TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_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=""

lircd.conf in /etc/lirc

Code:

# Please make this file available to others

# by sending it to <[email protected]>

#

# this config file was automatically generated

# using lirc-0.8.7-pre3(atilibusb) on Mon Jan 10 14:28:32 2011

#

# contributed by Hartmut Wagener

#

# brand: Pollin/Medion   /root/lircd.conf

# model no. of remote control: 40009936 

# devices being controlled by this remote: Computer

#



begin remote



  name  pollinx10

  bits           16

  eps            30

  aeps          100



  one             0     0

  zero            0     0

  pre_data_bits   8

  pre_data       0x14

  post_data_bits  16

  post_data      0x0

  gap          40006

  min_repeat      8

  suppress_repeat 3

#  uncomment to suppress unwanted repeats

  toggle_bit_mask 0x80800000



      begin codes

          KEY_0                    0x6C97

          KEY_1                    0xE20D

          KEY_2                    0x638E

          KEY_3                    0xE40F

          KEY_4                    0x6590

          KEY_5                    0xE611

          KEY_6                    0x6792

          KEY_7                    0xE813

          KEY_8                    0x6994

          KEY_9                    0xEA15

          KEY_POWER                0xD702

          KEY_TV                   0x012C

          KEY_VIDEO                0x82AD

          KEY_CD                   0xD904

          KEY_AUDIO                0x5B86

          KEY_RADIO                0x032E

          KEY_TAPE                 0x5A85

          KEY_INFO                 0x042F

          KEY_DOCUMENTS            0x86B1

          KEY_TEXT                 0xEB16

          KEY_MENU                 0x6E99

          KEY_BACK                 0xF520

          KEY_UP                   0xCDF8

          KEY_DOWN                 0xC5F0

          KEY_SELECT               0xF01B

          KEY_ENTER                0x739E

          KEY_VOLUMEUP             0xDE09

          KEY_VOLUMEDOWN           0x5D88

          KEY_CHANNELUP            0xE00B

          KEY_CHANNELDOWN          0x618C

          KEY_MUTE                 0xD500

          KEY_REFRESH              0x719C

          KEY_RED                  0x0732

          KEY_GREEN                0x88B3

          KEY_YELLOW               0x0934

          KEY_BLUE                 0x8AB5

          KEY_STOP                 0xFD28

          KEY_PAUSE                0x7EA9

          KEY_PLAY                 0xFA25

          KEY_PREVIOUS             0x76A1

          KEY_NEXT                 0xF823

          KEY_EJECTCD              0x6D98

          KEY_REWIND               0xF924

          KEY_FASTFORWARD          0x7BA6

          KEY_RECORD               0xFC27

          KEY_LEFT                 0x729D

          KEY_RIGHT                0xF41F

      end codes



end remote

Lircmap.xml in home/.xbmc/userdata

Code:
<lircmap>

<remote device="pollinx10">

<play>KEY_PLAY</play>

<pause>KEY_PAUSE</pause>

<stop>KEY_STOP</stop>

<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_SELECT</select>

<select>KEY_ENTER</select>

<pageplus>KEY_CHANNELUP</pageplus>

<pageminus>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</pageminus>

<back>KEY_BACK</back>

<menu>KEY_MENU</menu>

<title>KEY_TV</title>

<info>KEY_INFO</info>

<skipplus>KEY_NEXT</skipplus>

<skipminus>KEY_PREVIOUS</skipminus>

<display>KEY_MUTE</display>

<record>KEY_RECORD</record>

<volumeplus>KEY_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>

<volumeminus>KEY_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>

<mute>KEY_MUTE</mute>

<power>KEY_POWER</power>

<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>

<mymusic>KEY_AUDIO</mymusic>

<mypictures>KEY_TAPE</mypictures>

<myvideo>KEY_VIDEO</myvideo>

<playlist>KEY_TEXT</playlist>

<guide>KEY_DOCUMENTS</guide>

</remote>

</lircmap>

remote.xml in home/.xbmc/userdate/keymaps

Code:
...

      <back>parentdir</back>

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