i was following the mythtv.org firefly wiki entry to setup my new firefly remote. i copied their lircd.conf & lircrc to their proper locations and restarted mythtv. *tada* the firefly remote is controlling the mythtv menus. i start up a video, and test to see if i can pause… yeah, nope. boo.

irw reports different values than what i have in the lircd.conf, and i can’t get irrecord to write to a file. i think it’s time to backup my mythtv install and just blow it away. it’s a perfect reason to try out mythbuntu on gutsy.

loading up the installer for the mythbuntu command center is as easy as clicking a link. for some reason my fricken controler STILL isn’t working though. there is a python script, mythbuntu-lircrc-generator , for mythbuntu that will generate an .lircrc for you though. [here] run that as the mythtv user and it will create both a ~/.lircrc and ~/.mythtv/lircrc. unfortunantly that didn’t work either.

ha! figured it out. keep reading for the config files…

1. i’ve included my ~mythtv/.lircrc file, copy it to ~/.mythtv/lircrc and symlink it to ~/.lircrc [here]
2. copy the lircd.conf.firefox to /usr/share/doc/lirc/remotes/atiusb/lircd.conf.firefox /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
3. copy the hardware.conf to /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
4. sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart
5. sudo killall -9 Xgl , or restart X and log in as the mythtv user
6. start mythfrontend and play around with the remote

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i had to go and grab gutsy 2 days early. woot!