ASUS Eee Box EB1501 (+ alternative 1501 models EB1501U and EB1501P) discussion thread

furchtlos76 · 2009-12-10 14:13

I ordered one, too. As it has a heatpipe and only one fan i hope it is more silent then the asrock ion 330. Will report here then!

Doemer · 2009-12-10 19:27

@furchtlos

I just bought one and I also own one of the newer ASrock ION 330 Models and I can definitly tell you that for your living and especially for you sleeping room the asus is the much better choice. When I sit on my couch I couldn't say if it is running or not. ASUS ROCKS ONCE MORE Big Grin

Will sell my ASrock and buy another 1501

scoopy2scoops · 2009-12-10 19:38

Mine arrives tomorrow, will report on it then,

furchtlos76 · 2009-12-10 23:16

Doemer Wrote:@furchtlos

I just bought one and I also own one of the newer ASrock ION 330 Models and I can definitly tell you that for your living and especially for you sleeping room the asus is the much better choice. When I sit on my couch I couldn't say if it is running or not. ASUS ROCKS ONCE MORE Will sell my ASrock and buy another 1501

Nice! Can't wait it is here Wink

The ASrock is nice, too but i can hear that mini-fan inside and it is a very ugly noice, not like the deep sound of a ps3 or something else that is loud too.

furchtlos76 · 2009-12-10 23:17

btw. is there any new way in getting xbmc to work perfect on windows 7? Or it it still recommended/needed to use linux?

Doemer · 2009-12-10 23:29

@succo I see you run ubuntu on it. did you also have a problem with the ethernet connector? i installed karmic but this port is not working Confused

edit: Thx god. just found out that this problem was caused by my KVM switch. seems the asus really can't work properly when this one is connected. plugged in mouse and keyboard directly to the asus and now everything works like a charm and sooooooooooo silent Big Grin

the asrock was also a good device but I think i'll get rid of it and definitly get another one of those asus babies for my office. I am really impressed of this box. only thing i miss is 801.22N 5Ghz support but I usually stream via cable anyway so I can live with that Big Grin

bain · 2009-12-12 08:36

succo Wrote:ok, i seem to have solved it by setting lirc to use devinput and setting the right things in Lircmap.xml, but some buttons do not seem to send any signal, namely the 'color' ones, teletext, eee, images, videos and music while * and # seem to send a combination of presses
did anyone have the same troubles?

I seem to have the same IR and I'm fairly new to IR in general.

Cab you please explain what changed you make to get this IR working ?

Thanks.

bain

succo · 2009-12-12 11:58

ok, this is a simple howto for making the MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plusf0r ASUS (0471:206c) work with xbmc on linux
first let's see where is our remote located, so

Code:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

we will have a lot of output including what we are interested in, something like

Code:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0471 Product=206c Version=0100

N: Name="PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plusf0r ASUS"

P: Phys=usb-0000:00:04.0-1/input0

S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input3

U: Uniq=

H: Handlers=kbd mouse1 event3

B: EV=120017

B: KEY=c0000 400 0 0 70000 0 58000 8001f8 4000c004 e0beffdf 1cfffff ffffffff fffffffe

B: REL=103

B: MSC=10

B: LED=1f

so we know the remote is located at event3, in my case, but it can change if we move the remote controller to another usb port, so now we want to make an udev rule to link the event device which has the vendor-id and product id of our remote to /dev/input/irremote, so we already know that the vendor id is 0471 and device id is 0206c, so we can do

Code:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

and put in the file

Code:

KERNEL=="event*",ATTRS{idVendor}=="0471",ATTRS{idProduct}=="206c",SYMLINK="input/irremote"

now we can make

Code:

sudo service udev restart

detach and attach the remote again and we'll find a symlink in /dev/input/irremote pointing to our device
now we can proceed to install lirc

Code:

sudo apt-get install lirc lirc-dev

the lirc configuration will ask us what kind of remote we have, so we can say we have custom and make it point to /dev/input/irremote
now we have to edit /etc/lirc/hardware.conf so that it loads the correct remote template

Code:

sudo nano /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

and we make the REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF line look like

Code:

REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"

if we do

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart

and try irw we should have some output, now
so we go and make it work with xbmc, so

Code:

nano ~/.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml

and put in there

Code:

<lircmap>

        <remote device="devinput">

                <play>KEY_PLAY</play>

                <pause>KEY_PAUSE</pause>

                <stop>KEY_STOPCD</stop>

                <forward>KEY_FASTFORWARD</forward>

                <reverse>KEY_REWIND</reverse>

                <left>KEY_LEFT</left>

                <right>KEY_RIGHT</right>

                <up>KEY_UP</up>

                <down>KEY_DOWN</down>

                <select>KEY_ENTER</select>

                <pageplus>KEY_CHANNELUP</pageplus>

                <pageminus>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</pageminus>

                <back>KEY_BACK</back>

                <!--menu>PreviousMenu</menu-->

                <!--title>Guide</title-->

                <info>KEY_PROPS</info>

                <skipplus>KEY_NEXTSONG</skipplus>

                <skipminus>KEY_PREVIOUSSONG</skipminus>

                <!--display>Teletext</display-->

                <!--start>Home</start-->

                <record>KEY_RECORD</record>

                <volumeplus>KEY_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>

                <volumeminus>KEY_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>

                <mute>KEY_MUTE</mute>

                <power>KEY_SLEEP</power>

                <!--myvideo>Videos</myvideo-->

                <!--mymusic>Music</mymusic-->

                <!--mypictures>Pictures</mypictures-->

                <!--mytv>TV</mytv-->

                <one>KEY_1</one>

                <two>KEY_2</two>

                <three>KEY_3</three>

                <four>KEY_4</four>

                <five>KEY_5</five>

                <six>KEY_6</six>

                <seven>KEY_7</seven>

                <eight>KEY_8</eight>

                <nine>KEY_9</nine>

                <zero>KEY_0</zero>

                <!--star>Star</star-->

                <!--hash>Hash</hash-->

                <clear>KEY_ESC</clear>

                <!--enter>Enter</enter-->

                <!--red>Red</red-->

                <!--green>Green</green-->

                <!--yellow>Yellow</yellow-->

                <!--blue>Blue</blue-->

        </remote>

</lircmap>

where i commented the lines with the not working keys
we save it and restart xbmc and we should have a working remote, except the keys i previously said
that's all Smile

furchtlos76 · 2009-12-18 18:03

Really really great! Everything worx out of the box an this thing is really more silent then the asrock! The only problem i got is, with xbmc live installed to hdd. I can not turn the eb1501 off. Pressing the power button on the remote (that was delivered with the eb1501!) does not do anything. But shut down over the menu it works - resume with the power button works too! Any idea?

succo · 2009-12-18 21:53

did you set wake by usb in the bios menu?
it works perfectly here

furchtlos76 Junior Member Posts: 20 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-12-10 14:13 Post: #11 I ordered one, too. As it has a heatpipe and only one fan i hope it is more silent then the asrock ion 330. Will report here then!
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Doemer Junior Member Posts: 23 Joined: Jun 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-12-10 19:27 Post: #12 @furchtlos I just bought one and I also own one of the newer ASrock ION 330 Models and I can definitly tell you that for your living and especially for you sleeping room the asus is the much better choice. When I sit on my couch I couldn't say if it is running or not. ASUS ROCKS ONCE MORE Will sell my ASrock and buy another 1501
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scoopy2scoops Junior Member Posts: 35 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-12-10 19:38 Post: #13 Mine arrives tomorrow, will report on it then,
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furchtlos76 Junior Member Posts: 20 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-12-10 23:17 Post: #15 btw. is there any new way in getting xbmc to work perfect on windows 7? Or it it still recommended/needed to use linux?
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succo Fan Posts: 361 Joined: Mar 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Taranto, Italy	2009-12-18 21:53 Post: #20 did you set wake by usb in the bios menu? it works perfectly here
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