Archive:MS-Tech MC-1200 Remote

MS-Tech MC-1200 Remote

Remote from the MS-Tech MC-1200 case.

How to set up in Linux

UDev rule

First you have to create an own udev rule to ensure, that your device nodes are always the same.

We get the physical address from /proc/bus/input/devices:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

the output is something like this:

...

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b4 Product=0101 Version=0100
N: Name="Cypress Cypress USB Keyboard / PS2 Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.0/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4 
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=800000 0 e0b0ffdf 1cfffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=1f

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b4 Product=0101 Version=0100
N: Name="Cypress Cypress USB Keyboard / PS2 Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse1 event5 
B: EV=17
B: KEY=70000 0 2010000 3978 d840d000 1e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10  

...

What we need are the values behind Phys=. In my case usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input0 and usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input1.

Now we write a new rules file for udev:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-irremote.rules

and put the following content in:

SUBSYSTEM=="input",ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input0",SYMLINK="input/irremote0"
SUBSYSTEM=="input",ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input1",SYMLINK="input/irremote1"

Now restart udev and trigger a new discovery:

sudo restart udev
sudo udevadm trigger

Under /dev/input should now be two more symlinks; irremote0 and irremote1:

ls /dev/input

Inputlirc installation

First you have to install inputlirc and lirc:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inputlirc lirc

Then you need to configure it properly:

sudo nano /etc/default/inputlirc

and put the following content in:

EVENTS="/dev/input/irremote0 /dev/input/irremote1"
OPTIONS="-g -m0 -c -d /dev/lircd"

(The location of lircd is different per distro/version that I've tried, for Ubuntu 10.04 it's /dev/lircd)

The entries unter EVENTS are the devices we created via udev. The OPTION entries mean the following: