[LINUX] HOW-TO configure Soundgraph iMON VFD/IR Receiver (used by many HTPC chassis)

maybe someone who use xbmc live with antec case and rm200 remote can explain how he get lirc working pls...

dirtylion Wrote:i always get the msg
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lirc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lirc login
cvs [login aborted]: cannot get working directory: No such file or directory

someone can help me pls

Same problem here.
Using XBMC Live installed to HDD

UPDATE
Figured it out, you have to make sure you are in the home folder "/home/xbmc"

Today I bought a logitech harmony 895 and I'm very happy with it. but now comes the part to get xbmc working.
I'm using the Antec Micro Fusion 350 as enclosure with Soundgraph iMON IR/LCD.
Standard it comes with a tiny remote named veris rm100 (with the settings on the first page only back and enter are working)
So now I want my logitech to be configured as a MCE remote but i'm not exactly sure how to do this.

Anyone with a logitech remote managed to fix this?

dirtylion Wrote:maybe someone who use xbmc live with antec case and rm200 remote can explain how he get lirc working pls...

That would be sweet !

I have tried for two days now without any success.
So if anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Hello everybody,

I have an Antec Fusion Remote. Following this great tutorial, I got the remote working - well I got only to the point I could see some code by using the irw.
BUT - the LCD seems decided to not work. Or to be more precise lcdproc seems decided to not work. I manage to display the clock, to erase it and to completely turn off the LCD by using those perl commands. Apart from that, nothing works.
I tested lcdd&lcdproc in many ways - it seems that the communication between the client & the server is OK - I tested using the ncurses driver, I have the information passed to the server which afterwards passes it in the ncurses window. I cannot understand why it doesn't work using imon driver - it even tells me that it's using the /dev/lcd0 device for writing - nothing at all is displayed on the LCD.
Please help me, please, I am get dizzy.
Thanks a lot to everybody who might have a suggestion.

I have messages through "dmesg" which show smth like this:
/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.3~pre1/build/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: lcd_write: invalid payload size: 32 (expecting 8)

Please help, many thanks !

Hi realn.
I have to ask do you use XBMC Live, or did you install XBMC into a preinstalled Ubuntu ?

Hi, thanks for the support. I have it on a preinstalled Ubuntu. Anyway, please help me if you have any suggestions. Thanks a lot !

philippeb06 Wrote:Hello and thank you for your great help!

However, I'd like to add some comments as you solution did not work "out of the box" for me.

I am using an Antec Fusion Remote Black with a RM200 VERIS remote and add some problems getting the two lircd working together.

I ran two irrecord, the first one on /dev/lirc0 putting configuration on /etc/lirc/remote1.conf about the pad and the numbers on remote and the second one on /dev/lirc1 putting configuration on /etc/lirc/remote2.conf about the other keys.

Code:

sudo irrecord /etc/lirc/remote1.conf -d /dev/lirc0 --disable-namespace
sudo irrecord /etc/lirc/remote2.conf -d /dev/lirc1 --disable-namespace

Once this done, I ran the following commands:

Code:

sudo /usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0 --pidfile=/var/run/lirc0.pid  --listen=8765 /etc/lirc/remote1.conf
sudo /usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1 --pidfile=/var/run/lirc1.pid --connect localhost:8765 --output=/dev/lircd /etc/lirc/remote2.conf

This is now working and the irw mixes the two parts of the remote.

Hope it will help

Philippe

philippe: Could you please provide the conf-files you've recorded with irrecord? I can record on /dev/lirc0 but on /dev/lirc1 is always busy (even though I thought that I've made sure no process is using it).

/Andreas

Everything goes fine until I run this in the howto:

Quote:bmc@htpc:~/lirc$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
Doing initial module build

Error! Build of lirc_imon.ko failed for: 2.6.24-23-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.3~pre1/build/ for more information.
Installing initial module

Error! Could not locate lirc_atiusb.ko for module lirc in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.24-23-generic (i686) first.
Done.
xbmc@htpc:~/lirc$

Can anyone shed some light on what's causing this.