[pvrusb2] IR Question?

[Roger J. Allen]

I have not used SuSE, but I have gotten lirc and pvrusb2 to work
with Fedora and Debian.  The same instructions for setting up lirc
with an Hauppauge PVR-250/350/150/etc remote also work for setting
up lirc with the pvrusb2.  Just replace references to "ivtv" with
"pvrusb2".

For instance, close to the bottom of:

http://www.hillier.de/linux/vdr.php3

there is info on setting up a PVR350 remote control with SuSE 10.
You didn't mentioned which version of SuSE you are running, but
this might help.

There may be a question about which remote was shipped with
your WinTV-PVR-USB2.  My remote has 45 buttons and looks like this:

http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/hauppauge/PVR-350.jpg

I've been using this lircd config file:

http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/hauppauge/lircd.conf.hauppauge

with the "Hauppauge_350" remote name.

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Miephos wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> thanks for your hint. I did what you say.
>
> things that I did:
> PC-MIEPHOS: # modprobe lirc_i2c
> PC-MIEPHOS: # rclirc start
> Starting lircd (/dev/lirc)                                           done
>

That part looks good.  The web page about SuSE 10 and lirc mentions
editing /etc/sysconfig/lirc, so that might be something that sets
defaults for the rclirc script.  Check the /etc/sysconfig/lirc and
rclirc (maybe /etc/init.d/rclirc) files and see if they have any
useful comments.

I guess that SuSE wants you to add the "alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c"
line to /etc/modprobe.conf.local.  Also, the "insserv lirc" must be
the SuSE way to activate rclirc.

You may want to replace your /etc/lircd.conf with lircd.conf.hauppauge
and restart rclirc.  Then, run "irw" and you should be able to press
a button on the remote and see it's button name appear in the shell
window.

>
>
> Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2006 18:24 schrieb Jeff Sadowski:
>> Ok it looks to me your all setup for lirc like I was
>> saying earlier lircs docs are f***d so hers my first
>> attempt :-P
>>
>> mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0
>>
>> then I keep a copy of the node in /etc/udev/devices/
>>
>> mknod /etc/udev/devices/lirc c 61 0
>>
>> so it is recreated on startup :-)
>>
>> ok now for making sure your remote is working
>>
>> irrecord test.lirc
>>
>> then follow the instructions
>>
>> if you see dots when you press the button you know its
>> working ;-)
>>
>> I'm still learning lirc but this will let you know its
>> working.
>> I'll be back with more later good luck.
>

-- 
Roger J. Allen