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 Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:23 pm Post subject: mceusb ir transmitter, anbody got it to work?[Solved] |
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Hi,
Has anybody tried getting their IR transmitter to work?
Unfortunately, the transmitter doesnt seem to work for me. The receiver works fine though.
This is the device http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc468/oriental-hony/1-dell56FE6587906563A75668hp63A565365668_zps92364df1.jpg
On inserting the device i get
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[ 3847.644574] usb 2-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[ 3847.732182] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1934, idProduct=5168
[ 3847.732190] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3847.732194] usb 2-1.2: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver
[ 3847.732198] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: FINTEK
[ 3847.732201] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 88636562727801
[ 3847.733001] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
[ 3847.733083] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/rc/rc2/input13
[ 3847.733122] rc2: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/rc/rc2
[ 3847.733177] rc rc2: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0
[ 3847.865059] mceusb 2-1.2:1.0: Registered FINTEK eHome Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version 1
[ 3847.865067] mceusb 2-1.2:1.0: 2 tx ports (0x0 cabled) and 2 rx sensors (0x0 active)
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lsusb reports
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Bus 002 Device 009: ID 1934:5168 Feature Integration Technology Inc. (Fintek) F71610A or F71612A Consumer Infrared Receiver/Transceiver
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lircd is setup as
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#cat /etc/conf.d/lircd
LIRCD_OPTS="-H devinput -d /dev/input/by-id/usb-FINTEK_eHome_Infrared_Transceiver_88636562727801-event-if00"
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However, when i issue
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#irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend: command failed: SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend: hardware does not support sending
#irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 2
irsend: command failed: SET_TRANSMITTERS 2
irsend: hardware does not support sending
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i get errors on irsend. The receiver works fine though.
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#irw
00000000800100ae 00 KEY_EXIT devinput
0000000080010067 00 KEY_UP devinput
000000008001006a 00 KEY_RIGHT devinput
0000000080010069 00 KEY_LEFT devinput
0000000080010067 00 KEY_UP devinput
00000000800100a8 00 KEY_REWIND devinput
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lirc is installed as following:
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emerge -pv lirc
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] app-misc/lirc-0.9.0-r2 USE="X transmitter -debug -doc -hardware-carrier -static-libs" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput"
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any idea how do i get the transmitter to work?
Last edited by trumee on Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:30 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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trumee
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| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, after few hours of messing about I finally got this to work. Here are some rough steps.
1. Install kernel linux-3.10.4. This device is buggy on lower kernels where only the receiver works. The transmitter works in 3.10.4 which has a patched mceusb driver for this device.
2. In the kernel enable the following: Remote controller decoders --->LIRC interface driver, Remote controller decoders --->Enable IR to LIRC bridge. Do NOT enable any other IR decoders.
3. Again, enable Remote Controller devices --->Windows Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Transceiver
4. All the kernel modules are built directly into the kernel.
5. Emerge lirc using "userspace" driver, LIRC_DEVICES="userspace" and USE="transmitter"
6. Set LIRCD_OPTS="-d /dev/lirc0" in /etc/config.d/lircd
7. Finally, copy http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb as /etc/lircd/lircd.conf
8. Start /etc/init.d/lircd
9. irsend SEND_ONCE mceusb One should make the led on the ir device flash
10. irw will also work.
HOWEVER, i can only get irsend to work in the console tty1 with X turned off. Inside the X session, irsend doesnt make the ir device to flash.
The problem seems to be evdev which is picking up the device as a keyboard in X. i tried to make X ignore the device using
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#cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/5-evdev.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)"
MatchProduct "Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "Ignore"
EndSection
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which does disable the device as seen below. But still irsend refuses to make the device to flash its LED's inside X.
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[ 920.522] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168) (/dev/input/event8)
[ 920.523] (**) Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168): Ignoring device from InputClass "Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)"
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Solved, need CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED in the kernel config, see this http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/67492/focus=67616 |
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