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: {