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ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

lircd and hulu desktop

I'm trying to get my remote to work with huludesktop and still can't figure it out.

According to the hulu website, I need to run lircd with the -release switch...which I can't figure out how to do.

This is on my mediabox that boots directly to xbmc fullscreen (with openbox hiding in the background).
lirc loads via my rc.conf:
MODULES=(lirc-mceusb2)
DAEMONS=(lircd)

Help?

Last edited by ctarwater (2010-01-31 02:32:25)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: lircd and hulu desktop

Use /etc/conf.d/lircd.conf.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: lircd and hulu desktop

here is my current lircd.conf file, would I just put "release" in the "LIRC_EXTRAOPS" category?

#
# Parameters for lirc daemon
#

LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
LIRC_DRIVER=""
LIRC_EXTRAOPTS=""
LIRC_CONFIGFILE=""

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: lircd and hulu desktop

Yes, but not just "release" - you need "-release" or whatever the exact syntax is. The man page will help.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: lircd and hulu desktop

thanks.  I was looking for the man page under lirc rather than lircd.

I have the release switch working now (along with the decreased performance with xbmc it provides), but I cannot get hulu desktop to notice my remote at all.

I know my remote works because as I said I use it with xbmc.

My .huludestop file points to the updated location of the remote "lirc_device = /var/run/lirc/lircd" as mentioned on the lirc site.
Any suggestions?

** EDIT **

Ok, I got the remote to register in huludesktop by changing my remote name in the .huludesktop file, but the problem is that if I hit the down arrow it will scroll completely to the bottom of that column as if I was just holding down the button.  In other words, any key I hit get repeated and the remote stops working.  If I run irw and hit a key, it registers 6 times? 

Everything still works in xbmc.

Last edited by ctarwater (2010-01-31 02:30:53)