[furchtlos76]

What do you mean with: did you set xbmc to shutdown on exit?

Where can i config that? I did irw on console but it only shows:

@^ same with some other keys. Other show for example ]]d or something

[furchtlos76]

Well i did:

1) cat /proc/bus/input/devices

same output as you, I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0471 Product=206c Version=0100

2) everything else till:

sudo apt-get install lirc-dev gives me a

E: Couldn't find package lirc-dev

[succo]

that means that you didn't follow what i wrote here, so you're using the remote just like you would use a keyboard, and anything not mapped to a keyboard won't work, as your remote doesn't send anything to lirc
for the 'shutdown on exit' part, goto settings/system/energy saving and set the shutdown functionality
try again

[furchtlos76]

i really did. i got a symlink irremote inside /dev/input i puttet you Lircmap.xml inside ~/.xbmc/userdata/ (maybe it must be .xbmc/userdata/keymaps/?)

I think it does not use anything of that, it still uses the default config that came with live installation of rc1. Even after reboot still only @^ on power button. Are there maybe 2 lirc running? I got a Lircmap.xml in usr/share/xbmc/system too and a remote.xml inside /usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps ... damn everything works fine just that single stupid button not ^^

[furchtlos76]

Ahhaaa... i did apt-get remove lirc - after reboot xbmc still can be used with the remote.. so somehow it does not even use lirc. Strange. Will try again to install like you wrote, but what can i do about lirc-dev not found such a package?

[furchtlos76]

Do i have to disconnect usb keyboard when using remote maybe?

[succo]

ahem... did you set lirc up?
try to look at /etc/ilirc/lircd.conf, does it include lircd.conf.devinput?
have a look at /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, does it point to /dev/input/irremote and has it a line pointing to devinput/lircd.conf.devinput? is the driver set to use devinput?

[furchtlos76]

hardware.conf

i did change this 2 lines:

REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/irremote"
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"

Code:

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/irremote"
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Chosen IR Transmitter
TRANSMITTER="None"
TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
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=""
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""

lircd.conf

Code:

#This configuration has been automatically generated via
#the Ubuntu LIRC package maintainer scripts.
#
#It includes the default configuration for the remote and/or
#transmitter that you have selected during package installation.
#
#Feel free to add any custom remotes to the configuration
#via additional include directives or below the existing
#Ubuntu include directives from your selected remote and/or
#transmitter.

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

Maybe you could give me those 2 files, too?

[furchtlos76]

@succo could it be that there is a typo in your howto in line:

REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"

must it maybe be dev/input/ or something?

[succo]

try to sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc and this time choose custom and make lirc point to /dev/input/irremote
you installed lirc with the mce remote, that's why it isn't working

[furchtlos76]

I did that and selected custom, after that none (ir trans..). But where do i have to point it to /dev/input/irremote ? Could not change anything else in the config only select custom !? Can you please post your both config files? So i can take that to get this damn thing to work? Would be great!

Well reconfigure seems not to change hardware.conf only lircd.conf so i would really appreciate to get your config files to copy and paste.

[succo]

ok, here we go

Code:

mara@mediacenter:~$ cat /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev"
REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/irremote"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"
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=""
REMOTE_MODULES=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF=""

Code:

mara@mediacenter:~$ cat /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
#This configuration has been automatically generated via
#the Ubuntu LIRC package maintainer scripts.
#
#It includes the default configuration for the remote and/or
#transmitter that you have selected during package installation.
#
#Feel free to add any custom remotes to the configuration
#via additional include directives or below the existing
#Ubuntu include directives from your selected remote and/or
#transmitter.

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

that's all

[furchtlos76]

GREAT! Thank you succo so much! Finaly it works just inserted those 2 configs and everything works. Is there a last chance to have more Buttons added like the Foto, Video an Music Button to go to the sections in xbmc directly maybe? Or add that with a harmony remote somehow?

Thanks for your help!!!

[blackadaberry]

Hi

I'm going to install XBMC on my friends Asus nettop in about 2 hrs....Asus EB1501...Apparently earlier today he installed XBMC Live and had issues e.g. Overscan, and it crashed when he went into the network settings.

I see that a few people have had problems with Live installs recently.

So the question i'm asking is. What is the best install to go with. I'm not a complete Linux noob...but i'm not an expert..i'm not afraid to put in the work.

If you're running this hardware then please just let me know what worked for you. It may be that live isn't the right way to go....i expected it to work out the box...

[frankgobbo]

Hi all,

Wondering if somebody can help. I've tried with XBMC RC1 running on Win7 and also the live CD on my Asus EB1501.

Most videos work fine, but I have trouble with HD stuff. 1080p is almost unplayable (eg Terminator Salvation 1080p sample) and 720p is jittery (eg Top Gear any season 14 720p mkv rip).

I can't really explain it. Sound is fine, but video it'll play approx 1 second too slow and 1 second too fast. So although overall the timing is right, it's got this weird slow/fast/slow/fast thing going on.

Can anybody help? It's using 50%+ CPU time so I'm not convinced it's taking full advantage of the acceleration..

Thanks
FG