HTPC + LIVE + HP IR + Logitech Harmony 880

gastric Wrote:ssboisen - that did the trick! BINGO! Holy bang-your-head-on-the-desk experience! Note I also had to elevate to admin via "sudo su" prior to making the backup of lirc_mceusb.c and the remainder of the instructions.

5 minutes of Linux commands later I have a working remote. Now I get to learn how to map the keys on the Harmony 880 to the XBMC features properly. But I can navigate menus, play media, and it even shuts down the PC. It just doesn't start it up, and I can't use my quick Videos/Pictures/etc. buttons to access those sections, nor do I have a "back" button currently.

Thanks for everyone's help.

No problem, again I wouldn't have solved it without peterbo.

Yeah that's where I'm at aswell, if you find any good guide/keymap.xml on setting up a harmony 880 please post a link here, I know I will if I find one :-)

Edit:
And I think I found one, it's for windows but that's not really important since we're past the OS-specific part and should only need to set up stuff on the remote and in XBMC:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ht=Harmony

I haven't tried any of these yet. But here's some threads on configuring LIRC and your Harmony.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=73658 (Post #12 is the money maker)
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=67350 (the master thread, #12 above is based on this)
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=81108 (quick way to remap using Favorites)

Thank you peterbo, ssboisen, and gastric who gave me the link to this thread.

I feel I'm so close now. But I got stuck.

EDIT: I think it might not have edited my lirc_mceusb.c correctly, trying the one Peterbo posted.

Sorry that I never completed a true start-to-finish guide.

After successfully editing lirc_mceusb.c to include the device ID for your hardware do the following. I think this is the proper steps.

sudo su
sudo dkms remove -m lirc -v 0.8.6 --all
sudo dkms add -m lirc -v 0.8.6
sudo dkms -m lirc -v 0.8.6 build
sudo dkms -m lirc -v 0.8.6 install
sudo rmmod lirc_mceusb
sudo rmmod lirc_dev
sudo modprobe lirc_mceusb
sudo modprobe lirc_dev
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart

Edit:

Bah, I still can't get it to work. I can run through all the commands without issue. I think it might be how I'm editing the lirc_mceusb.c. Tried the one peterbo posted but it wouldn't build. But between that file and the original I'm pretty sure I have done it right.

EDIT2: Re-installed XBMC went through it again and worked right away

Thank you again gastric for pointing me here. And thank you peterbo and ssboisen for your help. So happy this is working now.

Somehow we need to figure out how to get this Device ID coded into the LIRC file so everyone doesn't keep having this issue going forward.

Would it be correct to understand that, in order to make this HP sensor work with an Microsoft-clone remote, all that is needed is to enter the commands noted by gastric at post 24 above at the XBMC terminal?

It should be the correct steps, note you have to edit the .c file first.

sorry this is a little off topic but it has been troubling me for ages.
When i go to "activities->xbmc" on my logitech remote it switches the tv to hdmi but also seems to toggle the power on xbmc so it shuts down my box (which was already on - of course nothing happens if the box if off to begin). Is there something I am overlooking in the logitech interface so it wont poweroff?

thank you

Thanks a bunch for this thread. i have a completely different remote and IR receiver combo, but following the steps here I got it up and running with fairly minimal work.