Template:RemoteControlSupport
Remote Control Support
Genral LIRC settings
Find the IR receiver's device by looking in the dmesg output for a line similar to:
input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input4
Additionally, the IR receiver will be listed if you execute the command:
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
For example:
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=2040 Product=9950 Version=0100 N: Name="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver" P: Phys=usb-0000:07:01.2-1/ir0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event4 B: EV=3 B: KEY=14afc336 284284d00000000 0 480058000 219040000801 9e96c000000000 90020000000ffd
In this example, the remote control gives output into /dev/input/event4.
The event number depends on your particular system and can vary.
Eventually this event number can even vary at every reboot.
You could create a new udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/65-persistent-hauppauge.rules.
KERNEL=="input*", ATTRS{name}=="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver", SYMLINK+="input/dvb-ir"
It has been mentionned that the following line works, instead of the above line (needs confirmation and deletion of the ugly line):
KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{name}=="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver", SYMLINK+="input/dvb-ir"
This would make the Hauppauge receiver always always be linked to /dev/input/dvb-ir.
But Linux systems runing recent udev will automatically create non-varying names, a nicer and automatic way of providing a stable input event name:
$ ls -la /dev/input/by-path/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 2008-02-07 20:31 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 280 2008-02-07 20:31 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-0000:00:1a.1-usb-0:2:1.0-event-kbd -> ../event1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-0000:00:1a.1-usb-0:2:1.1-event-mouse -> ../event2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-0000:00:1a.1-usb-0:2:1.1-mouse -> ../mouse1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 pci-4-1--event-ir -> ../event4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-02-07 20:31 platform-pcspkr-event-spkr -> ../event3
LIRC will use it without needing a special kernel module. use the dev/input driver and specify the input event device in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf (the dev/input driver may have been renamed to devinput, you can check this with the command "lircd --device=help"):
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf # # Arguments which will be used when launching lircd LIRCD_ARGS="" #Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file #START_LIRCMD=false #Try to load appropriate kernel modules LOAD_MODULES=true # Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers. DRIVER="dev/input" # If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be # automatically used instead DEVICE="/dev/input/by-path/pci-4-1--event-ir" MODULES="" # Default configuration files for your hardware if any LIRCD_CONF="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf" LIRCMD_CONF=""