Hi,

I recently did a clean install of F20 on a new system, and now I'm trying to get a remote control working. The remote is a Harmony 670 emulating a Hauppage 350, talking to a Phillips (but Microsoft-branded) receiver. This remote works beautifully on my old F14 system (and has since 2007 going all the way back to Fedora Core 6) but I've been utterly unable to get it to work on F20. I've tried a combination of approaches outlined on a host of sites, including MythTV, LIRC, ArchLinux, and FedoraProject.

The mceusb kernel module loads just fine.

=== start relevant lsmod

ir_lirc_codec 13021 0

lirc_dev 19504 1 ir_lirc_codec

mceusb 28026 0

rc_core 27490 13 ir_sharp_decoder,lirc_dev,ir_lirc_codec,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,mceusb,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,rc_rc6_mce

=== end relevant lsmod

When I plug it in, I see this in dmesg:

=== start dmesg

[1363994.259561] usb 3-7: USB disconnect, device number 9

[1364061.976061] usb 3-7: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd

[1364062.141766] usb 3-7: New USB device found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=0815

[1364062.141768] usb 3-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

[1364062.141769] usb 3-7: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver

[1364062.141770] usb 3-7: Manufacturer: Philips

[1364062.141771] usb 3-7: SerialNumber: PH00QtmD

[1364062.143239] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce

[1364062.143310] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-7/3-7:1.0/rc/rc0/input30

[1364062.143422] rc0: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-7/3-7:1.0/rc/rc0

[1364062.143568] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) as /devices/virtual/input/input31

[1364062.143960] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0

[1364062.276018] mceusb 3-7:1.0: Registered Philips eHome Infrared Transceiver with mce emulator interface version 1

[1364062.276021] mceusb 3-7:1.0: 2 tx ports (0x0 cabled) and 2 rx sensors (0x0 active)

=== end dmesg

I see these entries in /proc/bus/input/devices:

=== start devices

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0471 Product=0815 Version=0000

N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (0471:0815)"

P: Phys=usb-0000:00:14.0-7

S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-7/3-7:1.0/rc/rc0/input34

U: Uniq=

H: Handlers=kbd event5

B: PROP=0

B: EV=100013

B: KEY=fff 0 200108fc32e 237605100000000 0 700158000 419200004001 8e968000000000 10000000

B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000

N: Name="MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb)"

P: Phys=/input0

S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input35

U: Uniq=

H: Handlers=sysrq kbd mouse2 event16

B: PROP=0

B: EV=100017

B: KEY=30000 7 ff87207ac14057ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe

B: REL=3

B: MSC=10

=== end devices

Running 'ir-keytable' gives me this:

=== start ir-keytable

Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event5) with:

Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce

Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other

Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other

Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared

bus: 3, vendor/product: 0471:0815, version: 0x0000

Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms

=== end ir-keytable

Yet running 'ir-keytable -t' and hitting buttons on the remote gives me nothing. I see the light on the receiver light up, but nothing shows up.

When I unplug the IR receiver from the new computer and plug it back into the old one, and press some buttons, I see the old computer receive and process them just fine, so it's clearly not a remote/receiver/battery issue.

I've been messing around with this on and off for about 15 hours now with no success. I'd be happy to provide more info on what I've tried, but can anyone give me tips on what I might be overlooking and/or missing. I'm sure it's something stupid but I'm about to pull my hair out over this (and don't get me started about a host of other stuff in F20).

I'll be happy to let you know what other documentation I've read/approaches I've tried, but this email is long enough as-is.

Thanks,

-jdm