[pvrusb2] HVR-1950 IR Support

[Mike Isely]

Roger:

Just read through all of your messages.  There's some good information 
in there, but this needs to be sorted out.  Seems that lirc has come a 
long ways.  I have a lot catching up to do here...

  -Mike


On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, Roger wrote:

> For HVR-1950 lirc mplayer support - not using mplayer's default devinput and 
> using lirc's devinput driver, I've configured using the following steps:
> 
> 1) Recompile mplayer with lirc support. (I think this makes mplayer ignore the 
> devinput events and will look for /dev/lirc0 events instead.)
> 
> 2) Compile lirc userspace package with devinput driver.
> 
> 3) Auto load the following modules in /etc/conf.d/modules during boot:
> modules="ir-kbd-i2c lirc_dev.ko rc-loopback ir-lirc-codec.ko rc-lirc"
> 
> 4) Have a /etc/lirc/lircd & $HOME/.lircrc files.  And /etc/conf.d/lirc has the 
> previously mentioned:
> LIRCD_OPTS="-H devinput -d name=*HVR-1950*"
> 
> 5) irw should show events and mplayer now should recognize IR events as 
> configured in $HOME/.lircrc.
> 
> 
> NOTE: Removing the pvrusb2 device or module while the lirc daemon is started 
> will cause subsequent pvrusb2 reattachments to fail initializing and creating 
> the /dev/dvb devices!  I am not sure if using the in-kernel lirc_zilog.c 
> staging driver will solve this at all as it does still attach itself to the 
> pvrusb2 driver.  This issue has always completely hindered my usage of the 
> pvrusb2 remote control as I would never know when I would detach/reattach 
> whether accidentally or intentionally.  (Think the Windows driver might 
> activate a script to unattach the IR daemon before loading it's hvr-1950 
> driver?)
> 
> Any further suggestions from here?  Should I experiment with the zilog driver?
> 
> (I'll probably spend the next few hours configuring the only additional button 
> I need, KEY_EXIT -- KEY_PAUSE KEY_PLAY and seek buttons already already worked 
> with mplayer's devinput interface but need to be reconfigured using the lirc 
> daemon.)
> 
> --
> Roger
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