[HOWTO] Permanently fix your remote so that it is handled by LIRC

I'd really appreciate you guys writing a guide or wiki entry about a really useful solution to the whole mess. I tinkered around quite some time with the new kernel way to get a remote working: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=145488 The whole problem with this is, the remote then also responds like a keyboard, not like a remote. Sluggish and often you for example press a button more than once or too long and get it recognized as being pressed like 100 times... I'm so unhappy with this by now I think I'll try to get LIRC to work again.

I'm glad there is a way and that the OP decided to share it with others, which is 10000 times better than the bigmouthing of some wiseguys around here.

If the solution exists on Forums I dont mind writing the wiki docs, its about time ppl use the wiki to document stuff and not forums anyway, it gets buried and lost + the wiki you can create a linkback to forums post as a discussion on it, since wiki is not meant for discussions anyway.

@gokudo
idk about your specific setup but I read that you can have a setting somewhere to stop xorg from reading your device as a keyboard (streamzap for e.g.) the fix may be translatable to your situation idk. see 6.1 HOW-TO:Setup_Streamzap_PC_Remote_for_Linux#Option_1:_Disable_Streamzap_Xinput_device​_usign_xorg_configuration and try to adapt it for your situation.

My interest in Lirc is due to Asrock ION with internal receiver, which I have working with the simple fix I carry on my signature, had it not been that I dont think all the other complicated and long winded forum how-tos would have worked. that said simple things that are tested and work belong in wiki.

uNi

Thanks uNi. Well the thing is, I have an Asrock remote, too, now since I build a new htpc last fall. The mainboard uses the Nuvoton IR device. So I'm trying LIRC again cause the other method suggested here in some thread was abandoning LIRC altogether giving the mentioned result. I beared with it for some months now but it's getting more and more annyoing.

I'm curious, do you need the "echo none + lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols" command at startup, too?

EDIT: Oh this is unfunny....it works indeed with LIRC now but only when I'm less than 1,5 meters (~4,8 feet) or so away from the receiver. Damn.

No echo anything, for my system its as my link on sig describes only, no other tweaks necessary on Ubuntu 12.04LTS minimal.

uNi

(2013-02-11 07:21)FishOil Wrote:  

(2013-02-10 23:31)negge Wrote:  @FishOil: if you posess magic wisdom that makes every button on any remote do anything you want, without editing a single .xml file (hint: you don't) then share it with the rest of us

oh.......OK

Since you want to put words in my mouth (post) feel free to have at it.

I didn't mean to sound harsh, it's just that people are clearly having problems with LIRC and remotes in general so when you say it's a walk in the park on every device out there it's kinda hard to believe.