Fiire remotes in 8.10

[cirion]

My Fiire remote runs as a normal 2 button mouse in 8.10.
Is the software for the Fiire remotes not installed in 8.10?
Anyone know what to install?

[colinjones]

Strange!

Its the MCR Remote Dongle device - device template #1848 (under OnScreen Orbiter in the devices tree). If you look at the template, in the plug and play area you will see the vendor and product ID as 0c160006 which will match the output of lsusb for the device being 0c16:0006 (ie a ':' in the middle of the number above).

As I understand it, when you plug it in, the HAL device will detect it, and send a pnp device detected event to the PnP Plugin, which will then place an entry on the pnpQueue (SQL table in Pluto Main). Then it should use the info in that event (the vendor and product ID) to find that template and create a device from it.

In the template, it should specify the Pluto MCR Remote package to be installed to drive it...

[cirion]

I se no "MCR Remote Dongle device" there...
Just the following:
  Orbiter Embedded Phone
  Xine Player
  Photo Screen Saver
  MPlayer Player
  VDR

I could add it manually...

[colinjones]

try it...

[cirion]

Adding the MCR Remote Dongle device manually only makes the MD's complain about something not started correctly.
The Fiire remote still works as a 2 button mouse. No other buttons work.

I have 3 dongles and 2MD's + the Core hybrid.

[Zaerc]

Have you tried looking at the logs an/or TailDCERouter.sh to see what is actually going wrong?  I don't have one of those myself, but I'm pretty sure nobody removed the support for it (assuming that we have the needed sources in the first place of course).

[colinjones]

Also, try manually installing the pluto mcr package just to be certain that it can get the package and install it OK.

sudo apt-get install pluto-mcr-remote

Then a reload.... maybe it just couldn't find the source?

[cirion]

Code Select Expand

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ sudo apt-get install pluto-mcr-remote
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
pluto-mcr-remote is already the newest version.


[colinjones]

Well it must of pnp'd it at some point then, as it has installed the package for it... but why is the device not there then? Sorry, I'm lost!

[cirion]

Anyone know when the Fiire Remotes will work in 8.10?

A fix for the sources was made 2 months ago:
http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/changeset/21742

Anyone know if I can edit the files myself on a 8.10 install?
I have fresh install of 8.10 Alpha 2.11