[Howto] mceusb driver with lirc protocol instead of rc-6/devinput

[_JJ_]

Same issue here. Some keys on the remote work, some don't and some take multiple presses before something happens. (HP MediaCenter IR receiver with generic MCE remote) It stopped working somewhere in the process of upgrading from Beta 2 to RC1 and all updates after. No idea when. Followed most items in this thread to fix it but with a couple of changes:

This did nothing for me:

Code:

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/lirc.conf
blacklist ir_mce_kbd_decoder
blacklist ir_sony_decoder
blacklist ir_nec_decoder
blacklist ir_jvc_decoder
blacklist ir_sanyo_decoder
blacklist ir_rc5_decoder
blacklist ir_rc6_decoder
blacklist rc_rc6_mce

This did nothing for me (in rc.local)

Code:

echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols

This worked for me (add to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-input.rules. Adapted from http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=141868 )

Code:

ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="rc", RUN+="/usr/bin/ir-keytable -s $name -c -p LIRC"

JJ