Dell MCE Remote Troubles
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12th Jan, 2013, 03:18 PM
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Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Hi all,
I have a Dell MCE Remote that is having some trouble working. It doesn't work at all on the XBMC interface, so I tried configuring it according to the tutorial in the wiki. Using the mceusb lircd.conf didn't change it, so I tried using irrecord, and that still didn't work. No output is displayed in irw. From dmesg and lsusb, I know the receiver is recognized. This is the product I have: http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Dell-Microsoft-MCE-Media-Center-Remote-Control-Kit-/150548490382?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item230d63a88e I don't know a whole lot more about it. Lsusb shows a Philips eHome receiver, 0471:0815, which I know should work, because I've seen that ID in tutorials on how to setup LIRC before. I wish I wasn't having such a hard time getting this remote to work. It has always worked fine in Windows, and used to work fine on an Ubuntu installation many years back. I think when the kernel changes and LIRC changes happened is when it stopped working in virtually all linux distros. I've followed basically every tutorial I can find, and nothing is working. Thanks for your help. |
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12th Jan, 2013, 08:27 PM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Can you post the output of lsusb, dmesg and 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices'.
Did 'mode2' show any output when pressing buttons? pilight - modular domotica solution
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:11 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Oh yes, I should have mentioned that. Following the tutorial, I completed steps 1-3 with Step 2 failing every time.
mode2 did show output from all of my remotes (I mean like my TV remote, BluRay remote, etc. Not remotes I want to use with Xbian, but it just shows that the IR receiver is working). lsusb: Code: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. dmesg: http://pastebin.com/erf4vqRx cat /proc/bus/input/devices: http://pastebin.com/kB9QJ8yF |
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:18 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
So 'mode2' also shows output with the Dell Remote?
pilight - modular domotica solution
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:19 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Yes. It works with any IR remote.
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:26 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
please can you use pastebin next time instead of posting raw out of 1000's lines here ?
not pleasant to scroll down through all the lines (especially on touch devices ) -thx- ~~~~>>>Please always follow rules and read before you post<<<~~~~ |
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:35 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
(13th Jan, 2013 12:26 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote: please can you use pastebin next time instead of posting raw out of 1000's lines here ? Yeah, sorry. I didn't really think of that until I opened it up on my own mobile. |
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:52 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
If step 2 of my tutorial fails, just go to step 3
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13th Jan, 2013, 12:52 AM
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Re: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
not a problem,it was just advise 3:-)
~~~~>>>Please always follow rules and read before you post<<<~~~~ |
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13th Jan, 2013, 01:10 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
(13th Jan, 2013 12:52 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: If step 2 of my tutorial fails, just go to step 3 Well, that's what I did. I couldn't find a lircd.conf file on sourceforge that worked. Which is weird, because it's a fairly standard MCE remote, from what I understand. Anyway, I did step 3b and created my own config file, but the end of 3b says to retry step 2 (the irw step). irw still did not working after following all the steps of 3. |
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13th Jan, 2013, 01:15 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Did you put your new lircd.conf as 'custom.conf' in /etc/lirc/remotes/
and added this line to '/etc/lirc/lircd.conf: Code: include "/etc/lirc/remotes/devinput.conf" pilight - modular domotica solution
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13th Jan, 2013, 03:06 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
(13th Jan, 2013 01:15 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: Did you put your new lircd.conf as 'custom.conf' in /etc/lirc/remotes/ Well, originally, I just prepended the new config at the end of /etc/lirc/lircd.conf per the tutorial. But, I just followed the instructions you gave me, by putting an include statement and putting the file in the remotes folder, but irw still did not produce output. |
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13th Jan, 2013, 03:13 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Can you post you lircd.conf you created with irrecord?
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13th Jan, 2013, 03:41 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Created with irrecord:
http://pastebin.com/Qvqcb19z |
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13th Jan, 2013, 08:51 AM
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RE: Dell MCE Remote Troubles
Can you try putting this mceusb.conf in /etc/lirc/remotes/, also add the path to the new mceusb.conf to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
Code: include "/etc/lirc/remotes/devinput.conf" pilight - modular domotica solution
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