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probably the file /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules has something incorrect... try

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules

and verify the file contains exactly

ATTRS{modalias}=="(your modalias here)",SYMLINK+="input/dxremote"

if there is any error (i.e., unclosed quotes or something like that) it will not work as intended...

thanks, that checks out ok - I've even tried with the SYMLINK+= and just plain =

I even have a QUIRK in modules to stop HID grabbing it too, but that doesn't seem to make any difference either.

I have the same remote and receiver that I have set up to use with my Harmony 1 remote and EventGhost. The IR receiver is recognised as a HID compatible device by Windows.
Is it possible to configure the IR receiver receive additional keystrokes / commands by having the Harmony Remote emulate any other full-featured HID remote? How can I get a comprehensive list of what signals my IR receiver can receive? Since the Harmony can be trained to emit almost any signal, I could theoretically map all the keys on the harmony to XBMC commands.
Has anyone tried this or knows if it can be done?

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Anastrophe Wrote:thanks, that checks out ok - I've even tried with the SYMLINK+= and just plain =

I even have a QUIRK in modules to stop HID grabbing it too, but that doesn't seem to make any difference either.

I realize this thread is a little old, but in case you'd like to try this again (or for anyone else with this remote) I ran into the same trouble, but was successful in assigning a symlink by inserting the following:


Of course, I still don't have it responding to that keymap, but it's a start.

What I've found is that with many USB dongles, you can use lirc with the 'devinput' lircd.conf, then make a custom lircmap and keymap to make every key do whatever you want.

If it shows up under /dev/input/by-id/, try killing lircd and run sudo hexdump -C /dev/input/by-id/whatever to see if you are getting something with each keypress. If so, each thing should be mappable via lircd.conf, keymap.xml, and lircmap.xml.

I have USD HID remote as well, but I managed to make it work little bit differently. See my post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=63484. Maybe it can help.

i'm very close, took me a while for the dxremote to show up in the ls -l dev/input command, but i didn't realise there were 2 sets of " quotes, so if anyone else can see it, run the nano command at the top of page 3 and double check quotes are surrounding both parts.

anyway after seeing the dxremote, and pasting

"/usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=dev/input --device=/dev/input/dxremote --output=/dev/lircd --pidfile /var/run/lircd.pid"

i get

-bash: /usr/local/sbin/lircd: No such file or directory

could be because i've messed around in the past trying to get this thing to work. is there a file i can download or create to create this lrcd file or directory to get this going?

cheers

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i got this one http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.14380 (or this one, can't tell http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27596) but you'll have the same 'problem' as me, it's detected as a KB and mouse. asked my mate with the same set up as me if he had the lircd file in /usr/local/sbin/ but he didn't. don't know what to do now!