Comments on: Configuring Your MCE IR Remote

By: Abongile

Abongile — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:11:04 +0000

@Colin, I am completely new to linux, so to me home directory is understood as / (root) and the folder as /home but in either case I do not immediately have an lirc folder/directory. The whereis ~/.lirc command gives me everything from linux-headers to man file locations. For good measure I tried placing them in /usr/share/lirc (/mythtv and /mplayer) respectively and moved the runmythtv file from /home/mythtv to /usr/share/mythtv/runmythtv, rebooted and no luck.

I need an even more basic guide e.g. 1) “your home directory is /home/abongile”, 2) cp the files (mythtv and mplayer) from /usr/share/lirc and the runmythtv file to /? 3) rm the files from the other locations 4) reboot 5)Press big green button on MCE remote model 1039 and you should get…. something along these lines would really help.

PS thank for the reply getting responses is very encouraging at what is often a very frustrating experience as it still quiet a learning curve adopting linux.

By: colin

colin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:12:37 +0000

@Andrew have checked this out and it does not work on my config either. I can’t say I use it that often but I thought I had it going. Had a quick play around but can’t seem to find the MythTV lirc config skip to this jump point. Will update the post once I have figured it out.

By: colin

colin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:09:06 +0000

@Abongile the files need to go into the .lirc folder in your home directory on a standard MythBuntu install. So ~/.lirc/mythtv and ~/.lirc/mplayer
You will need to restart the machine or lirc for the new config files to take affect.
Hope this helps.

By: Abongile

Abongile — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:04:04 +0000

I am completely new to linux. I followed the instructions: copied the files as per in the instructions, including making runmythtv executable. However I don’t know how check that mythtv is using the new lirc files or how to point it to them. Could I have put them in wrong place (/etc/lirc/mythtv and /etc/lirc/mplayer)? I see that lirc is also in /usr/share/lirc. I apologise if this is not the right place to ask. Please help!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:12:40 +0000

Nice work.

The one thing I cant seem to get to work is direct access of the Recorded TV screen from LiveTV. The Key mapping below does not seem to work for me;

begin
remote = mceusb
prog = mythtv
button = RecTV
config = ;
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end

Any ideas as to why the above does not work?

All the best

Andrew

By: Menny

Menny — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:27:34 +0000

BTW, I like the “repeat” settings.
This is quite an improvement over the default lirc configuration.

By: Menny

Menny — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:20:30 +0000

Great, I’m gonna use this one

I found the default MCE remove configuration of MythTV quite basic, and tried to add some stuff, e.g., the subtitles.
But I prefered the use the “big green button” for starting only, and the power button for exit (I’ve changed the “System Exit Key” to alt+ESC, and configured the remote’s power button to it.).

BTW, how about adding this one to MythTV svn?