[08:22] <frankster> got a wierd issue with a remote. evtest and keytable -t work. yet irw and mythtv don't work. lirc conf file has the exact key events that I see in evtest or keytable -t yet nothing comes through. if lirc is running, evtest complains about something locking the device, and when I stop lirc then evteest doesnt complain aany more so I know that lirc is listening to the right device.
[08:23] <frankster> any thoughts why irw doesn't show anything?
[09:22] <SteveGoodey> frankster: This of any use? http://linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/Architecture_and_Customization
[09:22] <Zinn> [linhes.org] LinHES - Architecture and Customization
[14:16] <frankster> SteveGoody: thanks for that. i'll work my way through it
[16:27] <frankster> SteveGoodey: no joy with that, i'm gonna have to debug lircd
[16:27] <SteveGoodey> frankster: Sorry about that, good luck.
[17:06] <innatech> speaking of lircd, my windows remote stopped working after upgrading to 12.04. Haven't looked into it yet.
[18:24] <frankster> innatech: mceusb remote?
[18:24] <innatech> yep.
[18:24] <frankster> does it use rc-6 protocol?
[18:25] <frankster> one of the problems with my remote was that ubuntu's devinput keymap is out of date
[18:25] <frankster> although you onyl see the message for this if you rebuild lirc with debugging on
[18:25] <innatech> don't know what that is.
[18:25] <innatech> it's a generic mediagate mce remote, IR w/a usb receiver.
[18:26] <frankster> one thing I had to do was download http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
[18:26] <Zinn> [lirc.sourceforge.net] N/A
[18:26] <frankster> and replace the one provided by ubuntu
[18:27] <innatech> 'k.
[18:27] <frankster> also i found that at least some of the time, lirc seemed to change the protocol on the remote (ir-keytable -r shows you) so that it onyl had the lirc protocol. but in fact I needed to have rc6 protocol
[18:39] <innatech> I don't have a file by that name in /etc/lirc, just lircd.conf itself, which is blank but for an include of /usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb
[18:40] <innatech> oh, I think I get it.
[18:40] <innatech> One sec.
[18:43] <innatech> ok, I replaced that file and reloaded lirc but no joy.
[19:04] <innatech> So...is there some reason my HDHR won't stop streaming to my backend, even when its not being watched?
[19:04] <innatech> It
[19:04] <innatech> never stops sending out data at about 38kib/s
[19:05] <innatech> Googling suggests this is the backend scanning for EIT info? But I have this disabled.
[19:08] <innatech> ah, toggling the setting did the trick.
[19:19] <innatech> also, is there a metadata format I can use in sickbeard that Mythvideo will understand when it scans folders deposited in its hierarchy?
[19:19] <innatech> XBMC's?
[19:21] <frankster> ah ok you're using it slightly differntly to me
[19:21] <frankster> you've got mceusb drive
[19:21] <frankster> but mine is via linux inpuit layer
[19:21] <frankster> so your /usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb might not need replacinmg
[19:22] <innatech> I didn't replace that, I replaced the devmap in /usr/share/lirc/remotes/ or whatever
[19:23] <innatech> rather /usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
[19:24] <frankster> ah ok
[19:24] <innatech> should I replace the included conf as well?
[19:24] <frankster> well the way you have it configured it wont use that file
[19:24] <innatech> ah.
[19:24] <frankster> well you've configured lirc (presumably correctly) to use the mceusb driver rather than the input layer
[19:24] <frankster> so your situation is a bit different to mine
[19:25] <innatech> I'm doing what ever the mythbuntu control center did for me.
[19:25] <frankster> you probably selected mceusb in that when you chose the remote
[19:25] <innatech> yes.
[19:25] <frankster> if you had it working like that before 12.04 then I assume thats correct
[19:25] <innatech> yep.
[19:26] <frankster> sorry i cant help :)
[19:26] <innatech> that's OK. And for the record it's set to "Window Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
[19:26] <innatech> which seems pretty clear.
[19:28] <SteveGoodey> innatech: You might want to try mythtv-users.
[19:29] <innatech> I could. The people there usually label problems like this distro-specific tho.
[19:31] <SteveGoodey> They're normally pretty helpfull.
[19:31] <innatech> Yeah, I'll try.
[19:32] <innatech> Where do I alter the runtime options of lircd? In  /etc/init.d/ ?
[19:34] <frankster> do you mean arguments?
[19:34] <innatech> yep.
[19:35] <innatech> found it.
[19:35] <frankster> there is a setting in /etc/lirc/lirc/hardware./conf
[19:35] <frankster> I mean /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
[19:38] <innatech> huh. "ls /etc/lir*" shows /etc/lircd.conf but I cant list the individual file or stat it.
[19:39] <innatech> stat: cannot stat `lircd.conf': No such file or directory
[19:40] <innatech> nm, I'm stupid bash mistake.
[19:43] <innatech> same as this unanswered question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/166812/after-upgrading-to-12-04-from-10-10-my-mythbuntu-standard-mceusb-remote-no-longe
[19:43] <Zinn> [askubuntu.com] After upgrading to 12.04 from 10.10 my mythbuntu standard MCEUSB remote no longer works - Ask Ubuntu
[19:43] <innatech> I'll duplicate the irw test.
[19:45] <innatech> yeah, it's receiving the keycodes fine
[19:46] <innatech> mythfrontend is just ignoring them
[19:46] <innatech> and nothing shows in the frontend log.
[19:51] <innatech> that does seem like a question for myth-users.
[20:10] <frankster> is your lirc mapping setup>?
[20:10] <frankster> mythbuntu-lirc-generator or something like that
[20:26] <innatech> yeah, that's what reapplying the dynamic mapping setting did.
[20:27] <innatech> the upgrade dance apparently wipes the old one, and reactivates LIRC post upgrade without regenerating it.