Hauppauge Nova T500 Remote Problems

[marv2097]

Hi all,

I have installed a T500 DVB tuner and it seems to be working ok (have the same freezing issue as other people but hey..)

I am wondering has anyone managed to get the remote that comes with the T500 working fully with LMCE? I am not using a USB UIRT or anything just the standard IR receiver that plugs in the back of the tuner card.

I can get it to move up down left and right in LMCE but nothing else works. Cant select an option, exit etc. I have tried a couple of things.

• Manual setup of LIRC. - Added the T500 config and setup the hardware.conf file to point to it. When i run irw it shows all the buttons are working as expected but this doesnt seem to affect LMCE.

• Added the T500 remote as a new device template in web admin and then added a T500 remote device to the Media Directors page on the admin. Reload, restart etc.

I suspect that LMCE starts a new instance of LIRCD so the manual changes that got the buttons working are not going to have much effect. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong and has anyone else got this remote working properly??

Thanks in advance...

[gazlang]

It may be that LMCE doesn't recognise the command names assigned to the remote buttons on your lircd.conf that you (should have) copied into the device data configuration part of the LMCE remote template.
I have an imon pad remote and got my buttons mapped out with LMCE recognised names by copying the names in the lircd.conf for e.g. the windows mce remote that already has a built-in template.

Just add a new device - lirc remote control and pick the windows mce remote template, then veiw the device and copy the lircd.conf so you can ammend yours with the correct button names.

[marv2097]

Ok Ive just tried adding a Windows MCE remote and this makes no difference. I then tried to remove the remotes so that there is no remote listed under the Media Director page and also reverted the lirc config files back to the original ones. Rebooted the machine and the hauppage remote still works, but only for up down left right.

How is this still working after LMCE has been told there is no remote? Could another process be reading the remote somewhere and sending it as keystrokes maybe??

Cheers

[gazlang]

Adding the windows mce remote will make no difference. My suggestion was to look at the lircd.conf in the wmce remote template to suggest button names for your nova-t remote lircd.conf.

Did you copy a lircd.conf for your nova-t remote into the remote device template data - configuration?

[marv2097]

Ok so heres what I have done:

• Under the Media Directors page of the admin I have clicked 'Add Remote Control' and chosen the lircd.conf.hauppage
• I have then modified the device template for the lircd.conf.hauppage and removed the original config and added the config shown below
• I save this and reload the router but still it just works for the arrow keys. Is there somewhere where I can look at the mapping between the button names in the config file and the actions available for LMCE? Also is there somewhere I can test that LMCE is seeing the correct hardware device?
  

My config for the lircd.conf.hauppauge is:

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#
# brand:                       Hauppauge NOVA-T-500
# model no. of remote control: Hauppage Nova-T-500 Snowboard Shape Silver over Black
#

begin remote

 name  NOVA-T500
 bits           16
 eps            30
 aeps          100

 one             0     0
 zero            0     0
 pre_data_bits   16
 pre_data       0x1
 gap          199999
 toggle_bit      0


     begin codes
         Go                       0x0162
         Power                    0x0074
         TV                       0x0179
         Videos                   0x0189
         Music                    0x0188
         Pictures                 0x00E2
         Guide                    0x016D
         Radio                    0x0181
         ArrowUp                  0x0067
         ArrowLeft                0x0069
         OK                       0x0160
         ArrowRight               0x006A
         ArrowDown                0x006C
         BackExit                 0x009E
         Menu                     0x008B
         VolumeUp                 0x0073
         VolumeDown               0x0072
         PrevCh                   0x016B
         Mute                     0x0071
         ChannelUp                0x0192
         ChannelDown              0x0193
         Record                   0x00A7
         Rewind                   0x00A8
         SkipBack                 0x0195
         Play                     0x00CF
         Pause                    0x0077
         Stop                     0x0080
         Fwdwind                  0x00D0
         SkipFwd                  0x0197
         1                        0x0002
         2                        0x0003
         3                        0x0004
         4                        0x0005
         5                        0x0006
         6                        0x0007
         7                        0x0008
         8                        0x0009
         9                        0x000A
         Star                     0x0037
         0                        0x000B
         #                        0x0029
         Red                      0x018E
         Green                    0x018F
         Yellow                   0x0190
         Blue                     0x0191
     end codes

end remote

[gazlang]

when you run mode2 or irw do the same codes as listed in your config (above) appear?? (Some remotes may give different outputs) Also, did you add an infrared receiver from the drop down menu on the media director page of lmce? Use default, and make sure it appears in your devices tree (under the 'jump to device' drop down menu)