Hi,
i cant get my new MCE remote working correctly.
LinuxMCE is 7.10
Problem description:
Only a few buttons work.
Up, Down, Left & Right are working.
These are the only recognized Buttons.
For example, the OK, Back & Home Button do not work.
This makes navigation impossible.
Can anyone please help me, how i have to configure the device?
Found some hints about updating lirc or configuring device templates in the forum & wiki, but idont know, where i should start for best results.
I am not completely new to LinuxMCE or ubuntu, but i am no guru - so please make your explainations a bit more detailed :)
This is the device:
(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6715/remote1hj5.th.jpg) (http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=remote1hj5.jpg)
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8673/remote2ky2.th.jpg) (http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=remote2ky2.jpg)
http://www.speed-link.com/?p=2&cat=144&pid=15937&paus=1 (http://www.speed-link.com/?p=2&cat=144&pid=15937&paus=1)
Receiver:
(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1521/receiverfo5.th.jpg) (http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=receiverfo5.jpg)
I know, its not an original MCE remote, but in the included instruction WinMCE is refered and no driver is required there.
This are my settings in the admin section:
(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6114/snapshot2uv4.th.jpg) (http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot2uv4.jpg)
Big thanks & best regards,
Witzman
The first thing that I noticed, is you do not have a receiver set up from the admin shot. If you are using the MCE receiver then select mce_usb2.
Rob
Hi,
even after selecting mce_usb2 (or even mce_usb) there is no diffrence.
Arrow keys are working the other ones doesn't do anything.
When I stop linuxmce via the laaunch manager and restart the services and the orbiter i receive following message:
"Waiting for other devices starting up / mce_usb2" (or mce_usb, depending on, what I selected in admin section)
and then:
"There are some devices on this MD that did not correctly start....."
Any more ideas?
My guess is it's not a "remote control" exactly, but a HID device. In other words, it's a very limited keyboard. Get to a place outside of LMCE, ctrl-alt-F2 for example, and hit a couple number keys. If numbers show up, you have a HID type remote and you're probably best off just giving up on it and getting an actual MS MCE remote and a USBUIRT receiver/transmitter.
Another tell tale sign, if you can hit a button and use it as a mouse it's a HID device. I have one of those HID remotes (a bit different looking than yours), and it has a key labeled "toggle" or something similar to that. I fought with it a while then gave up, just not worth the trouble.
If it really is a MS MCE remote, sending the same IR codes as an actual MS MCE remote, you're best bet is to buy a USBUIRT. It's plug and play and by default adds an MS MCE remote, so just plug it in and any real MS MCE remote just works, no config necessary.
Yeah man...
Seems, you are right. Thanks a lot...
Tried in a shell and the numbers (and cursor actions) showed up.
As my fatter owns a windowsmce, i will try on his device, and if its working there more or less without any problems, i try to grab his mce remote and leave my sucking-hid-remote there.
If i cant manage this... there is no kind of dirty workaround to get my hid-remote working?
ciao,
Witzman
Quote from: Witzman on December 14, 2008, 01:25:41 AM
Yeah man...
Seems, you are right. Thanks a lot...
Tried in a shell and the numbers (and cursor actions) showed up.
As my fatter owns a windowsmce, i will try on his device, and if its working there more or less without any problems, i try to grab his mce remote and leave my sucking-hid-remote there.
If i cant manage this... there is no kind of dirty workaround to get my hid-remote working?
ciao,
Witzman
Hi Witzman,
This is a common problem with some 'mce compatible' remotes... it seems that at least partly the use of a HID device is to avoid Phillips licenses etc.
The remotes below are all compatible RC6 units;
http://www.remotecontrol.philips.com/index.cfm?id=1336 (http://www.remotecontrol.philips.com/index.cfm?id=1336)
The tranceivers are compatible too but will not work 'out of the box' with LinuxMCE-0710 as the mce_usb2 driver does not recognise the ID of these newer style transceivers. We have a fix for this which we will make available in the next few days via the svn and also I will hopefully have a pre-built package you can install that i will post here.
All the best
Andrew
Hi,
Thanks for all these informations.
It would be very nice, if you cound post the file here. Then i dont have to watch the whole forum.
Maybe another short question....
What about general updates? I installed my system nearly one year ago, but i was never asked to install any updates. Didnt i activate the update function, isnt there an update function or is all automatically (but i dont think so).
Quote from: Witzman on December 14, 2008, 10:04:24 AM
Hi,
Thanks for all these informations.
It would be very nice, if you cound post the file here. Then i dont have to watch the whole forum.
Maybe another short question....
What about general updates? I installed my system nearly one year ago, but i was never asked to install any updates. Didnt i activate the update function, isnt there an update function or is all automatically (but i dont think so).
Hi Witzman,
As i said i will post a url to an installable package here as soon as we have one ready in addition to putting the new code in the svn.
The LinuxMCE-0710 release has never had any updates pushed out to users installations unfortunately - so there is nothing wrong with your installation in that respect at all. I expect you will see updates pushed out to the forthcoming 0810 release after it is released (and before you ask I dont know when that will be ;-) )
All the best
Andrew