Installing MCE Remote for XBMC
The remote I purchased was a Media Center Remote Control / Receiver, RC118 / IR6065A / QIR606A / Q. This being a MCE certified device I thought it would be easy to set-up. However, it took a little more effort than expected. Fortunately the steps are easy, and it was a useful problem solving exercise. System I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with kernel 2.6.32-31-generic for use as a server for XBMC version 10.1. I received advice from Jarod Wilson of lirc that, lirc_mceusb is obsolete. This device is already supported by the in-kernel mceusb driver. So hopefully you are much luckier than I was in setting this up! Getting the remote to work Even though dmesg reported that I had a infrared receiver, lirc failed to recognise it when testing with irw. dmesg reports: [ 23.721796] generic-usb 0003: 147A : E03E .0003: timeout initializing reports [ 23.722033] generic-usb 0003: 147A : E03E .0003: hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [ Formosa21 eHome Infrared Transce...