Keyspan Digital Media Remote

niai · n00b Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 25

Hey,

Does anyone have any experience getting the Keyspan Digital Media Remote working under Gentoo (or Linux in general).

I notice the LIRC page lists it as unsupported

Thanks

noup · l33t Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 917

hi, have you managed to find a solution? i too am looking forward to get this working...
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downey · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject:

Just thought I'd let you know that there is a new driver for the Digital Media Remote in the 2.6.13 release. I don't know how many people have tried it yet but I'm using it now on my remote and it's working pretty well. You need to build a key map to map the special key codes that it generates to keys that you want to use. If anyone is still interested in this thread then just respond back and I'll post the modmap file that I'm using. Also I haven't heard if the LIRC project has decided to support the device yet or not but it shouldn't be too long before it does.

Just thought I'd put in a shameless plug in for the driver.

noup · l33t Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 917

downey · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:40 pm Post subject:

Sorry I didn't post back sooner I wasn't checking the forum too much lately.

Anyway here is my modmap commands:

noup · l33t Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 917

lavacano · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:25 am Post subject:

i dunno... mine doesnt do anything with the Xmodmap thing. I might have bad batteries, however I get [1009331.289734] drivers/usb/input/keyspan_remote.c: connected: Keyspan USB-IR o n usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
holding the remote directly in front of the receiver produces no feedback, is there a /dev device?
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downey · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject:

I've got a couple of emails on this so just wanted to make sure I updated the info here.
You will also need to emerge lineakd. Lineakd is a deamon that looks for the extra XF86 keycodes that aren't normally on a keyboard and maps them to commands to send to certain apps. So you can set up the Stop, Play, Prev, and Rewind to control XMMS or XINE. The problem is that those applications need to have a command line interface to be able to do this. As far as I know Totem and XMMS both can support this functionality. I haven't tried XINE or anything else. Read up on the docs for your favorite player and it likely has this functionality.

If you want to test to make sure the remote is working then you should bring up a terminal in X and use the up, down, left, right and select buttons to move the cursor. The select will send an enter to the terminal. Also if the remote comes up properly it should stop blinking. If it doesn't stop blinking then check dmesg to make sure the module loaded. If the module did load then make sure that the receiver is a UIA-11 receiver, not a UIA-10. The UIA-10 type is an older type receiver that requires a ROM load to get it to work correctly. I don't have access to the ROM and I don't have an UIA-10 receiver so if you really need to support that remote then you will likely need to contact Keyspan. Also every time you push a button on the remote you should see the receiver blink. If it doesn't then you probably have bad batteries or are too far away. I've tested the receiver from about 15 feet and it looks to work. There isn't a device associated with the remote, it should just look like a keyboard.

I hope that covers everything.

jnihil · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 8