Comments on: Update on TwinHan remote for Mythbuntu 8.10

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:59:37 +0000

Thanks so much for this information, worked perfectly!

By: Lasse

Lasse — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:09:42 +0000

Thank you! Works splendidly with 9.04.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:48:56 +0000

There is no way to use it to start up the PC as far as I know but you should be able to use it to shut down the PC by setting up and enabling the SHUTDOWN item in your MythTV menu. This is done using mythtv-setup if I recall correctly.

By: dean

dean — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:26:34 +0000

Thanks great web site, is there away to use this reomte to shutdown mythtv pc and/or awake pc

By: File

File — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:53:02 +0000

how can i figure this remote out i want to use it like this

CH+ up
CH- down
VOL+ right arrow
VOL- left arrow
play as enter
stop as stop i guess
cancel as esc button

that is basically all i can seee me using as my tv will control the volume im just not sure how to get it to do it

By: File

File — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:48:43 +0000

i want to use the remote to navagate the interface but i can’t get it to use enter to get to the next menu

By: File

File — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:41:14 +0000

any idea why the play button won’t act like my enter button on my keyboard? not sure it is working but in irw i can see the output

By: doep

doep — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:26:25 +0000

hi, my power button works with:

POWER 0×10040

gz doep

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:19:40 +0000

…and by Mythbuntu 9.10, I really mean 9.04

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:47:44 +0000

Works perfectly for Mythbuntu 9.10. Thanks!

By: G2

G2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:42:46 +0000

Thanks for your howto.
I have everything working up to and including the irw (displays sensible things on the screen).

I’m getting a Segmentation Fault when I press a key on the remote with the mythfrontend open.

$ mythfrontend -v all

shows nothing but “Segmentation Fault”. Any ideas what to check?

By the way, if someone has problems with getting irw working, I had to do:
$ sudo modprobe lirc_serial
to load the lirc module.

By: slickvguy

slickvguy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:03:25 +0000

Yes! Finally got it to work! :) Needed to use the “old” filename of .lircrc for the mplayer config. Doh. Glad I found an example on an mplayer site. Not sure why you said to call it mplayer and place it in the ~/.lirc directory. Maybe it works that way if Myth is installed?

By: slickvguy

slickvguy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:23:59 +0000

Progress. After reading many more posts, I added lirc_dev and lirc_imo to /etc/modules. I edited /etc/lirc/hardware.conf (REMOTE_MODULES=”lirc_dev lirc_imon” and START_LIRCD=”true”). Now irw works (and the keys on the remote are generating the matching line int eh conf file). I also have a /dev/lircd (but not a /dev/lirc). And when I run the lirc script, e.g. restart, it displays the status messages. But I still didn’t have the .lirc directory to put mplayer in, so I created one and copied it there. The mapping is not working properly though. I run mplayer and the rc keys are doing something, but not the right thing. Not sure what it’s doing, I think it’s still acting like a keyboard. Hmmm…

By: slickvguy

slickvguy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:10:08 +0000

Ubuntu 8.10. I followed your instructions and everything matched up until running irw – it gives me an error message “connect: no such file or directory”. The remote is being picked up as a keyboard (i.e. if I press on a number it’s as if I pressed it on my keyboard). Also, I have no .lirc directory nor a /dev/lirc. Don’t we need to install a driver/kernel module? Another thing…when I start or restart lirc (sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start) I do not get any messages. Any help would be appreciated. I don’t plan on using myth, but I do want to use this remote for mplayer as I have my pc connected to my hdtv and use it to watch movies. Thank you.

By: dishbert

dishbert — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:02:07 +0000

Thanks so much for this, for the first time ever I have a remote that works with Myth! This actually makes my month long Myth project worthwhile.

By: flo

flo — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:23:51 +0000

Great guide. Helped me get my remote working.

Just 1 strange thing, all buttons but the vol +/- are working.

Do you have any suggestions what could cause this problem?

Thx for your nice guide.

By: Hector

Hector — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:23:00 +0000

THANKS—THANKS—THANKS–..¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
You are my idol, whit the old guide nothing of nothing, but this guide all ok.
Thanks again.
(sorry for my english)

By: Gregg

Gregg — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:52:48 +0000

Dear Adam, Thanks for your post. I’ve got two Twinhan remotes identical to yours in appearance, but they give off different codes on some keys (the two I have aren’t interchangeable). A potential ‘gotcha’, but not related to my problem. My problem is that lirc just doesn’t seem to do anything no matter what I do. The remote behaves (and keeps behaving) as if it is a keyboard (even after following your instructions) in Mythtv and in other apps (running ubuntu 8.10 with mythtv added – working fine except for the remote). I’ve been using xmodmap which sort of did what I wanted by re-mapping the keys, but it is a pain to swap when you want to use the computer (the keyboard must be re-re-mapped). Specifically, how do we stop the Twinhan remote from behaving like a keyboard, and to start behaving like an IR remote? Is there something in mythtv to say we want to use lirc as a higher priority? I can’t find that. Also, do we run lircd or not? I ask because it makes no difference on my machine – I’m wondering if mythtv has its own interpreter – particularly since there’s a file called ~/.lirc/mythtv – how does mythtv know to use that? Ok, I’ve used up my 20 questions. Any advice you can offer will save what is left of my hair.

By: adam

adam — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:09:00 +0000

Can you show me the contents of your file /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/lirc.fdi – it will help work out the problem.

By: hosam

hosam — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:43:15 +0000

adam please try to fix my problem