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USB Infrared Toy / Problems with a HID divice
In my other thread i have problems with the irtoy. I also found a Zotac IR Receiver.
It seems this one likes to behave like a keyboard.
I found two sites with a udev rule. Tried both. It does not seem to work for me.

Quote
root@raspberrypi:/etc/udev/rules.d# cat 10-local.rules
# http://ben.periton.co.uk/2012/06/config ... e-control/
#SUBSYSTEM=="usb" , ATTRS{idVendor}=="0471", ATTRS{idProduct}=="20cc", SYMLINK+="remote", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/sbin/initctl --quiet emit --no-wait ir-ready"

# https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/d ... guide.html
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0471", ATTRS{idProduct}=="20cc",
MODE="0660", GROUP="lirc",
RUN="/bin/sh -c 'echo -n $kernel:1.0 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/unbind'"


After a reboot i see
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[  54.859074] input: PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/1-1.5:1.0/0003:0471:20CC.0001/input/input0
[  54.912086] hid-generic 0003:0471:20CC.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.5/input0

I Assume this whole "hid-generic" line should dissapear? What will be the device name?


Another solution would be a working alternative. Anyone ideas? I have a couple (simple) requirements:
* small, casing, should be placed under the TV
* must have a usb cord
* receiver is enough
* if it works with the ancient lirc versions is a plus
* easy to order in Holland
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USB Infrared Toy / RaspberryPi3: does not register all keypresses with IRW
Spend more time as expected with this "toy". Hope someone can help.
The device did not work on my raspberry pi 3 with the Rasbian verion of LIRC. (0.9.0).
According to the wiki you should be able to use the "irman" driver.

After some hours i tried Fedora. It has version 0.9.5 of LIRC. And i found out that the device is only supported by version 0.9.2
It works fine with Fedora.

So i tried to manually compile the latest LIRC sources (stable and unstable). After many struggles it compiled. It works but if i start "irw" it registers two keypresses and it seems to "hang". Some keypresses afterwards are registered.

Then i found this helpful guide: https://gist.github.com/bullshit/918d74db9473355d7181
Installed  using this steps, but with version pre1-2 instead of pre1-1.
The same problem.

Hope someone can help. I am at the point to give up.

Firmware is updated to v22 (story on its own).

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