[Hudson_Hawk04]

I have been trying for a while this afternoon to set up my Mediagate GP IR02BK remote with XBMC on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. When a key is pressed the reciver flashes,
lsusb gives: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1784:0008 TopSeed Technology Corp.

I have lirc 0.8.6 installed, however during the GUI portion of the install I selected custom. I was using the following as a guide;

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=672818&postcount=4

The Remote is also listed in the WIKI:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Rem...ol_Reviews

I am positive that I am missing something, I just don't know what it is I appreciate your time in this matter, If there is any more information needed from my end, let me know and I will provide it.

[teeedubb]

Have you tried configuring lirc to use a windows remote instead of a custom one?

[Hudson_Hawk04]

no I have not tried that...but I would like to. Is it possible to get back to the config gui and make changes? If so what is the command? If I must remove it and start from scratch would I use sudo apt-get remove lirc? or the rm command?

Thanks for your help

[Hudson_Hawk04]

I did some more search and think I found a solution to my issue by uninstalling.

I would navigate to the LIRC home folder using terminal then use the make uninstall command from the LIRC main folder, then reinstall and use the microsoft config?

[teeedubb]

You can reconfigure lirc by typing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

Into a terminal

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Thanks for the tip, works great.

[Vampirebat]

You can reconfigure lirc by typing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

Into a terminal

this fixed my remote issues also tyvm

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Just upgraded to to 11.10 earlier this week and it would appear that I lost the function of my remote, I currently am using a GP-IR02bk (Mediagate) MCE Remote the row of buttons that include radio, music. Pictures and video buttons respectively are the ones that work. When I press a button on the remote, I can see the IR reviver flash as well. Not sure if this is a keymap issue or LIRC.

[rodalpho]

Just upgraded to to 11.10 earlier this week and it would appear that I lost the function of my remote.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=112649

Still on the first page of this forum.

[Hudson_Hawk04]

thanks for the tip.

[boosted]

thanks for the tip.

Or try this one
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=104541

[rodalpho]

That's an extremely long and detailed explanation of how to fix the issue, yes. Or you can just cut/paste one of the Lircmap.xml extracts we posted to this thread. Either way.

[boosted]

That's an extremely long and detailed explanation of how to fix the issue, yes. Or you can just cut/paste one of the Lircmap.xml extracts we posted to this thread. Either way.

True, but only needs to be done once.
I found with my remote just installing 'lirc' and setting it up as I did with *buntu 11.04 didn't work. Using the in kernel option, all keys worked but I could only press the keys slowly or it would jump ahead.
Using the Kernel + lirc option cleared this.

With *buntu 11.10 they moved to a newer version of lirc which removed a key component that caused problems with the kernel drivers.
I found I had to first get the key mapping correct (in-kernel) and then install / configure 'lirc' (made sure 'irw' displayed the right key presses) the last part was to modify the XBMC Lircmap

[rodalpho]

With a MCEUSB remote? Weird.

[boosted]

With a MCEUSB remote? Weird.

Tell me about it, worked under *buntu 11.04. I only had to install 'lirc' and it worked.
Might have to do with my remote sending double key presses. using ir-keymap i see 2 key codes but when i install lirc i see one.