[LINUX] Generic HID Remote Driver for XBMC (Drivers for XBMC on Linux and XBMC Live)

uryu_ishida Wrote:Doesn't work, and hid_rc.log says this:

Code:

Unable to find specified HID device
Loaded map file '...'

I can't load hid_mapper until a few seconds after the XBMC main screen shows up. And my remote doesn't work until then either.

I still believe some modules are not loading in time...
Could you check lsmod before and after the XBMC main screen?
Look for module-names that contain usb or hid, also modules depending on these.
If found add those in the starting script, just as uinput was:
modprobe module-name

UsagiYojimbo Wrote:I still believe some modules are not loading in time...
Could you check lsmod before and after the XBMC main screen?
Look for module-names that contain usb or hid, also modules depending on these.
If found add those in the starting script, just as uinput was:
modprobe module-name

So the hid and usbhid modules weren't loading until after the main screen. I added those to rc.local, and they now load before the main screen, but hid_mapper oddly still won't load until after the main screen.

Also, hid_mapper --list-devices doesn't show any devices until after the main screen loads, if that helps.

Hi uryu_ishida,
I've developped a new option on the mapper that should help in your case. It is available at :
hid_mapper_beta.tar.gz

You can now use --wait-device switch on the command line to make hid_mapper waits for the device for the specified number of seconds.
For example, if you set --wait-device 30, hid_mapper will try to find the device every second for 30 seconds before exiting. If the device is found before the timeout, hid_mapper starts normally.

Hope this helps

Hey, I'm having some problems getting this driver to work. I'm using a Jetway Mini-top system with XBMC-Live installed.

I can get the driver to list the devices, and it finds:

Quote:Found HID device at /dev/hidraw2
Manufacturer : Cy se̪http://www.ir
Product name : http://www.irfmedia.com UIR

But when I try to capture events, I get this result:

Quote:sudo ./hid_mapper --lookup-id --manufacturer 'Cy se̪http://www.ir' --product 'www.irfmedia.com UIR' --map 'maptest.map'
Loaded map file maptest.map
Unable to find specified HID device

If I run the same command using the hex values that I found during the look-up, I get the same result:

Quote:sudo ./hid_mapper --lookup-id --manufacturer '0755' --product '2626' --map 'maptest.map'
Loaded map file maptest.map
Unable to find specified HID device

It doesn't seem to matter if I use the apha-numeric values or the hex values that I find using the --list-devices switch, I get the same error message regardless.

Any suggestions?

I have a Jetway Mini-top with Ubuntu 11.04 running XBMC.

I've been using hid_mapper for a while and it worked great. I told Ubuntu to ignore the remote so mappings only went through hid_mapper. I also had hid_mapper load on startup with a script.

I recently upgraded Ubuntu from 10.10 to 11.04 and after redoing my settings to get the sound and everything working again for xbmc, I noticed the remote no longer is working. Running the normal command returns an error:


The ids are correct.

This is the same output 10.10 gave me. Running --learn tells me the same thing. I may be missing something obvious, but is it possible there is something different between 10.10 and 11.04 that doesn't allow hid_mapper to find HIDs?

I know it doesn't help you much but I also upgraded to 11.04 and have been able to use hid_mapper still, so the driver seems to be compatible. Did you try recompiling?

I did try recompiling. I tried make clean. I deleted the whole folder, downloaded the latest tarball, un-tarred, and ran make on that, but I still get the same results. It must be something I'm missing. Probably something the upgrade disabled that I have yet to enable again. I'll look through my steps again.

Well, after installing xbmc live (based on 10.10) and again getting everything to work but the remote, I've narrowed it down to the new version of the hid_mapper (which I decided to update at the same time as the update to 11.04). When I went to an older version, it worked again.

The newer version seems to get stuck at 'Found HID device' while the older one will tell me 'Opened HID interface on /dev/hidraw3'

Problem solved for me I guess.

Has anyone with a Jetway Mini-top found two identical HID devices when running the ./hid_mapper --list-devices command?

Here is the output that I get:

Yes. I get 2 as well. I don't know why, but it doesn't seem to negatively effect anything. Also I'd like to point out that I haven't been able to use hid_mapper using the actual names, but rather only by ids. The high-ASCII 'e̪' character might mess it up.


Should give you 2 instances with manufacturer of '0755' and product of '2626'. So the learn command is:


That should give you the following output:


The actual hidraw numbers will vary based on what devices you have connected. I have an issue with the latest beta not actually opening the HIDs, so I'm using an earlier version.