Packard Bell Fast Media remote- show some respect thread

I bought 5 old HP media center IR receivers and they work fine for me too. I didn't use HP remotes with them though. It's a piece of cake to just make your own lircd.conf file using irrecord. I use OFA remotes with lots of buttons so I can get the whole KB on the remote if I want it.

Hi,

I also purchased one of these remotes, and am in the process of setting it up. Did you have any luck with this?

I know it's not difficult to do, but it is certainly tedious and I figure there's no sense in reinventing the wheel! In particular, I've found that duplicate entries, or setting the same button to do two different things, stops it from working properly.

If you (or anyone) have a working config for myth (or any other program) already, I'd love to see it. If not, let me know and I'll send you mine once it's done.

Regards,

Lee

Which remote/receiver do you want a config file for? I've got one for the PB that's worked fine for me for years. I've also got one for a One For All learning remote that I set up for the default cable box device (RCA). I've set up all buttons on each.

It's for the PB fastmedia remote. Just got it yesterday, and have been wrestling with it and mythtv for a good few hours now!

Thanks,

Lee

I've got a couple of them. I.ve used them with Knoppmyth and Mythbuntu 7.10. Neither of these distros handled the serial receiver properly. Here's what I did for Knoppmyth;

Connect the receiver to your serial port.

Add to the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:

setserial /dev/ttySX uart none (where X = serial port 0-3)
modprobe lirc_serial
/usr/local/sbin/lircd

And for Mythbuntu (It's supposed to work in the new 8.04 version) I put the instructions on their bug sight. Here's the report;

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/187338

As for a lircd.conf, the standard one supports all buttons, but there wasn't an lircrc file for it so I just edited another one for all the buttons. It's kind of long, but here it is;

# lircrc.pb for Winamp/Packard Bell remote
# 2006 Wes Newell
# Save this file in ~/.mythtv/lircrc
#
begin
prog = irxevent
button = Help
config = Key Escape CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Phone
config = Key C CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Message
config = Key W CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = SRS
config = Key CTRL-B CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = CD
config = Key D CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irexec
button = Aux1
config = Key U CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Aux2
config = Key J CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Aux3
config = Key I CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = One
config = Key 1 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Two
config = Key 2 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Three
config = Key 3 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Four
config = Key 4 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Five
config = Key 5 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Six
config = Key 6 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Seven
config = Key 7 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Eight
config = Key 8 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Nine
config = Key 9 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Zero
config = Key 0 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Star
config = Key shift-8 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Hash
config = Key R CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Mute
config = Key F9 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Enter
config = Key Return CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Menu
config = Key M CurrentWindow
end

# Note the "repeat =" strings in the volume and channel.
# This means that if you hold down the key, every nth instance will be
# passed. This depends on your system, so you may want to increase or
# decrease this and see what happens. repeat = 1 is probably too
# fast.

begin
prog = irxevent
button = VolDown
repeat = 3
config = Key F10 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = VolUp
repeat = 3
config = Key F11 CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = CHUp
config = Key Page_Up CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = CHDown
config = Key Page_Down CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Display
config = Key P CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Up
config = Key Up CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Down
config = Key Down CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Left
config = Key Left CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = Right
config = Key Right CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = RMB
config = Key End CurrentWindow
end

begin
prog = irxevent
button = LMB
config = Key Home CurrentWindow
end

Email your phone number if you need more help.

Thanks!

The default lirc.conf does indeed work properly in mythbuntu 8.04, and the example .lircrc also works. it just doesn't have the correct bindings for all of the keys (e.g. no escape key binding).

I'll have a play around with your lircrc file. Thanks again!

Lee

The config = key bindings are different depending on if you use irxevent or mythtv as the prog =. I'll be loading 8.04 sometime early next week on a spare machine. I'll stick a PB remote on it and see how it works at default.

yeah, i noticed - i haven't played with irexevent yet, but i might give it a go for some of the more universal key bindings e.g. the number keys

Thanks

I installed Mythbuntu 8.04 on a spare machine I'm going to sell and the PB remote worked out of the box. But, they didn't assign all the buttons. Just the basic ones. lircrc is simlinked to ~..lirc/mythtv, so you can either edit that one to add the other button functions or just delete the link and copy the new file to lircrc if you want to maintain the original one.

Thanks

OK, I added all the extra buttons to the PB lircrc file. Also rearranged most of it to get it in order. If you want it.
http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/lircrc.mythtv.pb

Hi wnewell,

Thanks so much for your input and help with this! I'm going to enjoy having a play around with some of the new functions of my remote

Lee