[clug] (MythTV) LIRC + TView99 card - IR problem

[Ian Bardsley]

G'Day Andrew

I'm not the bearer of good news i'm afraid,  my first attempt with 
Mythtv was with on of these tuner cards and I never managed to get it 
working even as a tuner.  After many attempts, some great help from 
various list members and a deal of frustration, I just bought a DVB device.

For what it's worth I aquired via E-Bay some time ago a Micro$oft MCE 
remote which has a nice feature of incorporating 2 programmable ir 
senders as will as an ir receiver which allows control of the TV as well 
as Myth with the one remote.  I use Mythbuntu now and this device 
installed itself as part of the Mythbuntu installation process and apart 
from a couple of errors in the in the LIRCD file,  worked without 
further intervention.  Prior to that I was just using a simple serial 
remote which also worked fine for Myth.

Hope you have better luck that I did but if all else fails there are 
some fairly cheap solutions available to you as alternatives.

Regards

Ian Bardsley

Andrew Smith wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Firstly, I have to say that Myth is a kick-arse bit of open source.  
> All of my hats are off to those who've contributed to it.
>
> I have a TView99 Analogue tuner card from about a billion years ago 
> that I'd like to use as my IR receiver.  My main tuner is a Twin HD 
> card (without IR), I threw the TView card in cause I had it, would 
> like to tune Analogue and need IR.  I'm hoping someone on the list 
> happens to have one of these cards working, or can steer me on 
> diagnosis of the problem.
>
> My Distro is MythDora (cause it's quick).  I have the card tuning fine 
> - bttv auto detects the correct card type, and the IR function seems 
> to be correctly found and provides /dev/input/event6 for me to use 
> with irrecord (irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 lircd.conf)
>
> The issue is that irrecord times out after 10 seconds with:
> Hold down an arbitrary button.
> <10 secs>
> irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
> irrecord: closing '/dev/input/event6'
>
> I'm thinking it might even be a hardware problem - I'm pretty sure I'm 
> using the correct IR lead (white stereo 3.5mm plug) - that's where I'm 
> hoping someone has one and can confirm.  I haven't located the 
> original remote, but have been hoping that at least one of the others 
> I've tried (including a Hauppauge x50 remote) should've shown up 
> something.
>
> From what I understand, irrecord is talking directly to the 
> module/card, so lircd isn't running or configured at this point.
>
> Other output below.
>
> An help/pointers appreciated!
> Thanks
> Andrew
>
> dmesg:
>
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:04:00.0, irq: 16, latency: 64, mmio: 
> 0xd8001000
> bttv0: detected: (Askey Magic/others) TView99 CPH06x [card=38], PCI 
> subsystem ID is 144f:3000
> bttv0: using: Askey CPH06X TView99 [card=38,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffefff [init]
> bttv0: tuner type=1
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
> tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> tuner-simple 1-0060: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and 
> compatibles))
> tuner 1-0060: type set to Philips PAL_I (FI12
> tuner-simple 1-0060: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and 
> compatibles))
> tuner 1-0060: type set to Philips PAL_I (FI12
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> input: bttv IR (card=38) as /class/input/input6
> bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> bt878_probe: card id=[0x3000144f], Unknown card.
>
> cat /proc/bus/input/devices:
>
> I: Bus=0001 Vendor=144f Product=3000 Version=0001
> N: Name="bttv IR (card=38)"
> P: Phys=pci-0000:04:00.0/ir0
> S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd event6
> B: EV=100003
> B: KEY=10afc336 2150a48 0 0 0 404 80010000 190 4801 1e0000 4400 100000 
> 10000ffc
>
>