[evilweasil]

Hi All,

I really hope someone can help. I've recently bought an Acer Aspire Revo and installed the latest version of XBMC from the live disk.

Initially I planned on using my iPhone to control it, but that quickly proved to be a bad idea, so I decided to buy a remote.

A Dell remote came up on eBay, and with it being almost identical to the Philips SRM 5100, I decided to go for it, especially after reading that it should work straight out of the box.

Alas, it didn't.

So, I think I've narrowed it down to something, although I don't know what that something is. The following is a few things I've found:

Lirc is installed and it's running on version 0.8.6

andy@XBMCLive:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0471:2093 Philips

So the device is recognised by the USB bus, but it's not listed in /proc/bus/input/devices:

andy@XBMCLive:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0001 Vendor=10ec Product=0662 Version=0001
N: Name="HDA Digital PCBeep"
P: Phys=card0/codec#0/beep0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

Does anyone know why it wouldn't show here? Have I done something wrong? All I did was plug in, find it didn't work, then google to the high heavens!

The only thing I can think to blame is the receiver itself as nothing happened when I plugged it into my MacBook….but that isn't really conclusive evidence. I have no windows machine to test with.

Thanks in advance guys, any questions just let me know.

Edit: I'm running Kernel 2.6.32-29

[evilweasil]

Bit of a bump, I'm really stuck on this...

[boosted]

Can you see any reference to it in dmesg also does 'irw' display the key codes.
Also post '/etc/lirc/hardware.conf' and 'etc/lirc/lircd.conf' Files might be in '/etc' if running slackware. When you installed lirc did it ask what type of reciever you have?

[evilweasil]

Hi,

I haven't got that far yet. irw yeilds nothing.

Dmesg reads as follows:

usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from choice 1

and it just stops there. I've seen much more detailed outputs from other people that show info about the remote, but this is all I get.

Any ideas?

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf

Just the basic config for now, does this need to be modified for the kernel to recognise the remote when I plug it in? If yes then this is what I need to play with. Does anyone have the right config for my remote?

Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

[vikjon0]

I have a RC197 and it works out of the box. Did you install or touch anything at all?

Of course the receiver could be different from mine and then it is a different ball game.

[boosted]

Hi,

I haven't got that far yet. irw yeilds nothing.

Dmesg reads as follows:

usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from choice 1

and it just stops there. I've seen much more detailed outputs from other people that show info about the remote, but this is all I get.

Any ideas?

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf

Just the basic config for now, does this need to be modified for the kernel to recognise the remote when I plug it in? If yes then this is what I need to play with. Does anyone have the right config for my remote?

Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

Can you unplug / plug the receiver in and post dmesg output - just the part for the receiver.

copy of
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"
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=""

and

# /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
#Configuration for the Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all) remote:
include "/usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"

[evilweasil]

Hi there,

I've updated my hardware.conf to the same given, and it still returns the following:

usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from choice 1

[boosted]

Hi there,

I've updated my hardware.conf to the same given, and it still returns the following:

usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from choice 1

Was that what you got from dmesg? Did you restart 'lirc' or reboot?
You may need to get help from someone with the same setup.

Found this http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=45346

[evilweasil]

Sorry about the short last post, I was in a serious rush.

Anyway, yes the output was from dmesg, and it just won't go beyond:

usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from choice 1

I've seen much more detailed outputs where the kernel recognises the receiver, but mine just seems to give up *shrug*

I rebooted the machine after the reconfig of hardware.conf, so I have no idea what's going on.

I'm wondering if my kernel has the built in modules of the 2.6.38 kernels :-S no idea, I'm obviously clutching at straws here!

[evilweasil]

AH HA!

Ok, I've just found something new:

When running /etc/init.d/lirc start

* Loading LIRC modules
...done.
* Unable to load LIRC kernel modules. Verify your
* selected kernel modules in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

Ideas?

So hardware.conf says:

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Centre Transceivers/Remote (All)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

I've removed the rest as it's exactly as above.

I hope this sheds some new light on the scenario....

[evilweasil]

Broken again:

Modified the following:

REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
to
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_mceusb"

and lirc start worked, but the receiver still isn't recognised.

[balrog74]

I have the same remote, off ebay china as well.
I'm using the XBMC live installation on a new gigabyte i3 board, os is only modified to accept my newer nVidia vid card.

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0471:2093 Philips

I rebuilt the module per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LIRC
so now the mod loads, but I cannot get any output of irw /dev/lircd.

If I plug it into a winders box it works fine so I know it's not a bum device.
This is the line I added to /usr/src/lirc-0.8.6/drivers/lirc_mceusb/lirc_mceusb.c

/* Philips Infrared Transceiver - DELL branded */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_PHILIPS, 0x2093) },

After this the module loads when restarting lirc but nada else,
Ideas?