Tivo Remote - will it work?

[markbean]

I bought the a Nero package which included a 950q, Tivo remote, IR blaster and some useless software, all for $35. The 950q works perfectly. Will the Tivo remote work? I of course plugged the IR receiver it in and tired it, but no luck. What is the Tivo remote known as? How can I get it working?

Thank you!

P.S. if I get this working I might just buy another package and have three tuners on my box even though that would be overkill.

[markbean]

FYI: the TiVo remote that I'm talking about is the Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC remote bundle at the bottom of this page. I don't know if the TiVo PC remote bundle is much/any different than the standard TiVo remote

[newlinux]

You probably just need to find a working lircd.conf file for it. If you can't you can always use irrecord to create a conf file and then you can use the remote with LIRC. Pretty much an IR remote can work with LIRC.

[markbean]

Originally Posted by newlinux

You probably just need to find a working lircd.conf file for it. If you can't you can always use irrecord to create a conf file and then you can use the remote with LIRC. Pretty much an IR remote can work with LIRC.

Thank you for the reply. I've done some further investigation and I think things are a bit more complicated. The remote came with an IR receiver and IR Blaster labeled "Tivo PC". I don't think that it is being seen when it is plugged in. When I do

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I don't see it listed there. I found this discussion, but it was over my head. Any thoughts on what I need to do to have the IR Receiver work with LIRC?

I did find some conf files here. I'm not sure what the differences are between them but they should be good starting points after I get the receiver working.

[markbean]

Originally Posted by newlinux

You probably just need to find a working lircd.conf file for it. If you can't you can always use irrecord to create a conf file and then you can use the remote with LIRC. Pretty much an IR remote can work with LIRC.

Thank you for the reply. I've done some further investigation and I think things are a bit more complicated. The remote came with an IR receiver and IR Blaster labeled "Tivo PC". I don't think that it is being seen when it is plugged in. When I do

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I don't see it listed there. I found this discussion, but it was over my head. Any thoughts on what I need to do to have the IR Receiver work with LIRC?

I did find some conf files here. I'm not sure what the differences are between them but they should be good starting points after I get the receiver working.

[wpc]

Originally Posted by markbean

Thank you for the reply. I've done some further investigation and I think things are a bit more complicated. The remote came with an IR receiver and IR Blaster labeled "Tivo PC". I don't think that it is being seen when it is plugged in. When I do

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I don't see it listed there. I found this discussion, but it was over my head. Any thoughts on what I need to do to have the IR Receiver work with LIRC?

I did find some conf files here. I'm not sure what the differences are between them but they should be good starting points after I get the receiver working.

you need to download the lirc source and edit the lirc_mceusb.c and recompile it.



so here's 2 parts of the file that need to be edited.

/* general constants */
#define SEND_FLAG_IN_PROGRESS 1
#define SEND_FLAG_COMPLETE 2
#define RECV_FLAG_IN_PROGRESS 3
#define RECV_FLAG_COMPLETE 4

#define MCEUSB_INBOUND 1
#define MCEUSB_OUTBOUND 2

#define VENDOR_PHILIPS 0x0471
#define VENDOR_SMK 0x0609
#define VENDOR_TATUNG 0x1460
#define VENDOR_GATEWAY 0x107b
#define VENDOR_SHUTTLE 0x1308
#define VENDOR_SHUTTLE2 0x051c
#define VENDOR_MITSUMI 0x03ee
#define VENDOR_TOPSEED 0x1784
#define VENDOR_RICAVISION 0x179d
#define VENDOR_ITRON 0x195d
#define VENDOR_FIC 0x1509
#define VENDOR_LG 0x043e
#define VENDOR_MICROSOFT 0x045e
#define VENDOR_FORMOSA 0x147a
#define VENDOR_FINTEK 0x1934
#define VENDOR_PINNACLE 0x2304
#define VENDOR_ECS 0x1019
#define VENDOR_WISTRON 0x0fb8
#define VENDOR_COMPRO 0x185b
#define VENDOR_NORTHSTAR 0x04eb
#define VENDOR_TIVO 0x105a

^^^^^^^^^^^ see the last line here I added for VENDOR_TIVO


this was for version lirc-0.8.6. I don't think the IR blaster part works yet but the receiver does. I did not try the IR blaster portion yet and don't have a need to.





{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_MITSUMI, 0x2501) },
/* Topseed eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TOPSEED, 0x0001) },
/* Topseed HP eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TOPSEED, 0x0006) },
/* Topseed eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TOPSEED, 0x0007) },
/* Topseed eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TOPSEED, 0x000 },
/* Topseed eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TOPSEED, 0x000a) },
/* Ricavision internal Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_RICAVISION, 0x0010) },
/* Itron ione Libra Q-11 */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_ITRON, 0x7002) },
/* FIC eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FIC, 0x9242) },
/* LG eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_LG, 0x9803) },
/* Microsoft MCE Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_MICROSOFT, 0x00a0) },
/* Formosa eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FORMOSA, 0xe015) },
/* Formosa21 / eHome Infrared Receiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FORMOSA, 0xe016) },
/* Formosa aim / Trust MCE Infrared Receiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FORMOSA, 0xe017) },
/* Formosa Industrial Computing / Beanbag Emulation Device */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FORMOSA, 0xe01 },
/* Formosa21 / eHome Infrared Receiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FORMOSA, 0xe03a) },
/* Formosa Industrial Computing AIM IR605/A */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FORMOSA, 0xe03c) },
/* Fintek eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FINTEK, 0x0602) },
/* Fintek eHome Infrared Transceiver (in the AOpen MP45) */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_FINTEK, 0x0702) },
/* Pinnacle Remote Kit */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_PINNACLE, 0x0225) },
/* Elitegroup Computer Systems IR */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_ECS, 0x0f3 },
/* Wistron Corp. eHome Infrared Receiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_WISTRON, 0x0002) },
/* Compro K100 */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_COMPRO, 0x3020) },
/* Compro K100 v2 */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_COMPRO, 0x3082) },
/* Northstar Systems eHome Infrared Transceiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_NORTHSTAR, 0xe004) },
/* TiVo PC IR Receiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TIVO, 0x2000) },
/* Terminating entry */
{ }
};

^^^^^^^^^ see USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TIVO that was added

[sentinel]

Has anyone actually gotten this working?
If so, what steps did you take? What do you have in your hardware.conf and lircd.conf?

I've tried editing and recompiling LIRC as described both above and here, but it still isn't working. The light on the IR receiver turns on (and stays on) when it received a signal, but irw doesn't pick up on it.

I found a kernel patch here that looks promising, but recompiling kernels always ends in disaster for me, so I'd like to avoid that if possible.

I feel like I'm so close, and I really want this to work. What am I missing?

[wpc]

Originally Posted by sentinel

Has anyone actually gotten this working?
If so, what steps did you take? What do you have in your hardware.conf and lircd.conf?

I've tried editing and recompiling LIRC as described both above and here, but it still isn't working. The light on the IR receiver turns on (and stays on) when it received a signal, but irw doesn't pick up on it.

I found a kernel patch here that looks promising, but recompiling kernels always ends in disaster for me, so I'd like to avoid that if possible.

I feel like I'm so close, and I really want this to work. What am I missing?

I must be talking to myself because my post right above this tells you EXACTLY what you need to do.

[sentinel]

Originally Posted by wpc

I must be talking to myself because my post right above this tells you EXACTLY what you need to do.

Uh, I did that....

Originally Posted by wpc

...you need to download the lirc source and edit the lirc_mceusb.c and recompile it....

Originally Posted by sentinel

...I've tried editing and recompiling LIRC as described above, but it still isn't working....

Sorry, did I miss something?

[markbean]

Somehow I was not tracking this conversation. Thank you for bringing it to my attention again. I would really like to get this remote working. I'm a super newbie so I don't understand many of the steps just by the descriptions above.

I went to

/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.6/source/drivers/lirc_mceusb

and edited lirc_mceusb.c as detailed by adding

#define VENDOR_TIVO 0x105a

and

/* TiVo PC IR Receiver */
{ USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_TIVO, 0x2000) },

in the places specified. Was that the right file?

How do I recompile it? I tried

sudo make lirc_mceusb

and it gave me a ton of error and warning messages so I'm guessing that's not what I was supposed to do.

After it's recompiled am I supposed to reconfigure LIRC by

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

Would I then answer 'None' for the remote, and 'None' for the IR transmitter or should I see the Tivo transmitter listed now?

After I have reconfigured would I then just copy a of a lircd.conf from here (any guess which is our remote) to "/etc/lirc" and then do

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart

Thank you for bearing with me. I tried to be as descriptive as possible.

Thank you!