I’m trying to set up a usb Windows Live Remote (The remote shown in this guide) on OpenSUSE 12.2. I come from an Ubuntu background and I am making the switch over and I am loving OpenSUSE except I cannot get my remote to work properly. It seems that the remote is working but the button mapping is wrong. The center OK button does nothing and the Enter button at the very bottom of the remote does this operation. In addition a number of the buttons do nothing. Unfortunately this is unusable for me. This functionality has worked out of the box and nothing I have done has changed this. I am comfortable with command line and I am a software developer but sadly I know little about lirc. I have spent a few hours getting more comfortable to no avail. On Ubuntu the procedure I would follow is below:
commands from your IR control/remote. To install it I opened a terminal window and typed:
sudo apt-get install lirc
The configuration takes place in the terminal window. Unfortunately I hadn’t a clue what I was doing and skipped the configuration. I restarted it by opening a terminal window and typing:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
The first screen will be for remotes, I chose
**“Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)” **
For Receivers I chose
**“Microsoft Windows Media Center V2 (usb) : Direct TV Receiver”**
What I have already tried:
I added a /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file:
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
~
I have added the contents of /usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb to /usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput and /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.
Output of lsusb:
mike-aspire:/etc/lirc # lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0471:0815 Philips (or NXP) eHome Infrared Receiver
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:0963 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Output of /etc/init.d/lirc status:
mike-aspire:/etc/lirc # /etc/init.d/lirc status
redirecting to systemctl
lirc.service - LSB: lirc daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/lirc)
Active: active (running) since Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:20:18 -0500; 16min ago
Process: 2643 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/lirc start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/lirc.service
└ 2657 /usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/ir
Jan 20 21:20:18 mike-aspire lircd-0.9.0[2657]: lircd(devinput) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
Jan 20 21:20:18 mike-aspire lirc[2643]: Starting lircd (/dev/input/ir)..done
Jan 20 21:20:31 mike-aspire lircd-0.9.0[2657]: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Jan 20 21:20:31 mike-aspire lircd-0.9.0[2657]: initializing '/dev/input/ir'
No matter what I do irw doesn’t print anything out even if I mash every single button on the remote.
The OpenSUSE guide tells me to install lirc-kmp-desktop however this package is not in the repositories I have.
Output of irrecord:
mike-aspire:/etc/lirc # irrecord -H irman -d /dev/input/ir testconf
Driver `irman' not supported.
Supported drivers:
accent
alsa_usb
asusdh
atilibusb
atwf83
audio_alsa
awlibusb
bte
bw6130
commandir
creative
creative_infracd
default
devinput
dfclibusb
dsp
dvico
ea65
i2cuser
irlink
livedrive_midi
livedrive_seq
logitech
macmini
mp3anywhere
mplay
mplay2
mouseremote
mouseremote_ps2
null
pcmak
pinsys
pixelview
samsung
sb0540
silitek
srm7500libusb
tira
tira_raw
udp
uirt2
uirt2_raw
usb_uirt_raw
usbx
It just looks like my configuration file is being completely ignored and I have no idea why. I have restarted /etc/init.d/lirc multiple times and restarted my computer and nothing takes effect. Does anyone have any idea what is happening? I have been working on this quite some time and trying to use the web to figure things out to no avail. Any help would be amazing! Let me know if there is any more information I can provide!
Cheers
