7th Apr, 2014, 11:59 PM
ok, i am at wits end with this... i have tried everything i know (and i am not new to this) and cannot get my remote to work consistently. it works most of the time in rc1, but occasionally does not - either only a few buttons work or it doesn't work at all, usually a reboot or 2 will fix it. but in staging i cannot get it to work at all. i have been through everything in THIS THREAD, as well as dozens of xbmc, openelec and lirc forums and nothing gets a response from irw or mode2.
dmesg
cat /var/log/lircd
i am now at the point that i am shopping for a flirc or a gpio receiver, but they are not easy to find in this part of the world, plus i know it CAN work and would like to figure it out as it may help others if we can get to the bottom of it. i suspect a conflict with ir-keytables, but documentation on the relationship between that and lirc is spotty at best. @CurlyMo, can we use this as a scenario to put together a step-by-step troubleshooting procedure that is worth adding to the wiki? after all, it ain't rocket science (or is it?).
dmesg
Code:
[ 22.543228] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
[ 22.543740] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168) as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.3/1-1.3.3:1.0/rc/rc0/input0
[ 22.544050] rc0: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168) as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.3/1-1.3.3:1.0/rc/rc0
[ 22.809221] mceusb 1-1.3.3:1.0: Registered FINTEK eHome Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version 2
[ 22.809251] mceusb 1-1.3.3:1.0: 0 tx ports (0x0 cabled) and 2 rx sensors (0x1 active)
[ 22.809454] usbcore: registered new interface driver mceusb
[ 22.900708] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[ 22.934558] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
[ 22.937440] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
[ 23.009760] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
[ 23.015364] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
[ 23.018082] IR SANYO protocol handler initialized
[ 23.040672] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) as /devices/virtual/input/input1
[ 23.051048] IR MCE Keyboard/mouse protocol handler initialized
[ 23.062441] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 247
[ 24.196843] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0
[ 24.196868] IR LIRC bridge handler initializedcat /var/log/lircd
Code:
Apr 7 19:54:18 xbian-testing lircd: caught signal
Apr 7 19:55:25 xbian-testing lircd: lircd(devinput) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
Apr 7 19:59:01 xbian-testing lircd: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Apr 7 19:59:01 xbian-testing lircd: initializing '/dev/lirc0'
Apr 7 19:59:01 xbian-testing lircd: WARNING: can't get exclusive access to events coming from `/dev/lirc0' interface
Apr 7 19:59:37 xbian-testing lircd: removed client
Apr 7 19:59:37 xbian-testing lircd: closing '/dev/lirc0'
Apr 7 20:01:45 xbian-testing lircd: caught signal
Apr 7 20:01:47 xbian-testing lircd: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
Apr 7 20:01:54 xbian-testing lircd: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Apr 7 20:02:29 xbian-testing lircd: removed clientCode:
xbian@xbian-testing ~ $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1934 Product=5168 Version=0001
N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)"
P: Phys=usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.3
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.3/1-1.3.3:1.0/rc/rc0/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100013
B: KEY=fff 0 0 200 108fc32e 2376051 0 0 0 7 158000 4192 4001 8e9680 0 0 10000000
B: MSC=10
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb)"
P: Phys=/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd mouse0 event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100017
B: KEY=30000 0 7 ff87207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: REL=3
B: MSC=10Code:
xbian@xbian-testing ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2101:8500 ActionStar
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2101:8501 ActionStar
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1934:5168 Feature Integration Technology Inc. (Fintek) F71610A or F71612A Consumer Infrared Receiver/Transceiver
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0951:1665 Kingston TechnologyCode:
xbian@xbian-testing ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ir_lirc_codec 3564 0
lirc_dev 8952 1 ir_lirc_codec
ir_mce_kbd_decoder 3860 0
ir_jvc_decoder 1924 0
ir_sanyo_decoder 2228 0
ir_sony_decoder 1884 0
ir_rc5_decoder 1860 0
ir_rc6_decoder 2540 0
ir_nec_decoder 2516 0
rc_rc6_mce 928 0
mceusb 11301 0
rc_core 12464 12 lirc_dev,ir_lirc_codec,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,mceusb,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,rc_rc6_mce
frandom 3296 1
brcmfmac 136832 0
brcmutil 3088 1 brcmfmac
cfg80211 147744 1 brcmfmac
rfkill 10124 1 cfg80211
vchiq 183244 2
sg 18804 0i am now at the point that i am shopping for a flirc or a gpio receiver, but they are not easy to find in this part of the world, plus i know it CAN work and would like to figure it out as it may help others if we can get to the bottom of it. i suspect a conflict with ir-keytables, but documentation on the relationship between that and lirc is spotty at best. @CurlyMo, can we use this as a scenario to put together a step-by-step troubleshooting procedure that is worth adding to the wiki? after all, it ain't rocket science (or is it?).
