[pvrusb2] My HVR-1950 IR Remote does work

[Mike Isely]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Roger wrote:

> My HVR-1950 IR Remote does work.
> 
> =app-misc/lirc-0.8.4a
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5
> 
> # uname -a    
> Linux localhost2.local 2.6.29-gentoo-r5Y #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 26
> 11:39:09 AKDT 2009 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> Box numbers are:
> 
> 75111 LF
> REV C3E9
> 
> Buttons that do work on the remote are "Red" "OK" "CH+" "CH-"
> 
> I also have a $HOME/.mythtv/lircrc.  Everything IR related here on this
> box was setup 1-2+ years ago to work with the original older PVRUSB2
> device.  When I got the HVR-1950, I only extracted the most recent
> firmwares from the Hauppauge website using the pvrusb2 Linux perl
> script.

If you have even one of the buttons working then you should be able to 
get them ALL to work.  The pvrusb2 driver, the IR receiver, and the LIRC 
driver together really have nothing to do with the specific button 
presses - they just pass the raw 1's and 0's up to the LIRC daemon and 
it's that daemon which translates the raw bits into keypresses.  Please 
study the LIRC documentation and follow what's given there.

> 
> Is it possible the latest firmwares released from Hauppauge made the IR
> remote work?  I've yet had time to further figure-out exactly how many
> buttons work & don't work.  I can do this easily, but won't have time
> until winter here.  (I only 2 more months of warm weather to get
> everything outside completed here. :-/)  
> 

No, it is not possible at least from the POV of the pvrusb2 driver.  
None of the firmware loaded by the pvrusb2 driver has anything at all to 
do with IR.  It is possible that the IR chip might want firmware and I 
think that may actually be the case here but it's not the pvrusb2 driver 
which is dealing with it so I can't help you there.  I thought I had 
read at one point that the LIRC driver might try to send firmware but 
even if it did, it certainly did not come from Hauppauge.

If you want to make your success report really useful to others, then 
the most important metric you can supply is the exact version of LIRC 
you used, which LIRC driver you enabled and what if any module 
parameters you might have supplied to the driver.  Everything else is 
bascially just a conduit and should have (almost) no bearing on the 
success or failure of the IR capability of the HVR-1950.

  -Mike



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