I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 MCE (media center edition) kit for my mythtv box. Everything was pretty smooth using Knoppmyth R5A30 except the damned remote which refused to work. The remote that comes with this kit is described online as an MCE 2005 remote. It has RC6 printed on the back (I think its made by phillips) and the IR receiver is labeled SMK on the bottom.
I saw that the receiver was picked up by the kernel (dmesg) but the remote wasn’t passing any characters to mythtv. I started lircd and ran ‘irw’ to see what (if any) data was comming in from the remote. Nothing. So then I did a ps aux|grep lirc and realized that lirc wasn’t running. After another restart and the lirc process going away I took a look at the lirc rc script under /etc/init.d/lirc .
To get my lircd working properly I changed the following line in /etc/init.d/lirc :
start-stop-daemon –start –quiet –exec /usr/sbin/lircd — $LIRCD_ARGS \
to:
start-stop-daemon –start –quiet –exec /usr/sbin/lircd \
A simple /etc/init.d/lirc restart did the trick. Now running irw confirmed that the remote was sending data to the system properly. Woopie! More MythTV updates as I continue to get this system working. A proper MAME setup is next.
EDIT: For those of you that have been asking for my lircd.conf file, here it is.