Dell MCE Remote Troubles

[jay.hankins]

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.