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Get xawtv to use remote

Video4Linux,

I came to this web site via the Xaw TV web site, because that web site said it handled discussion here. I'm hoping I can get a little help with my Xawtv set up, and if I'm lucky with my remote as well.

I have in my computer a Hauppage PVR-150 TV tuner card. I have successfully set it up so that I can see TV signals in Xawtv. I had to install a more recent version of Xawtv than what was in the repositories, because apparently only the new version handles IVTV correctly. Xawtv seems to be, at the moment, the only option for TV signals for my hardware and OS set up.

I have succeeded in mapping all the Japanese broadcast channels as well.

The next step is to set up LIRC to be able to use the remote that comes with the Hauppauge card. This is where I have hit a wall.

I have been able to get the latest version of LIRC installed and running.

At the command prompt, when I run "irw" and press buttons on my remote, I get the following output:
0000000000001781 00 1 Hauppauge_350
0000000000001782 00 2 Hauppauge_350
0000000000001783 00 3 Hauppauge_350
0000000000001784 00 4 Hauppauge_350
0000000000001785 00 5 Hauppauge_350
00000000000017a5 00 OK Hauppauge_350

As you can see, it is correctly identifying the buttons, although mis-identifying the card as a PVR-350. So the remote works.

But how to configure the remote to do the following has proven beyond me, despite reading the instructions on the LIRC web site:

1. Correctly identify the remote control as a Hauppauge_150 (This may not be critical, as the buttons reported from "irw" do match the buttons pressed on the remote),

2. Be able to change channels in Xawtv. I have not been able to find instructions on the web which clearly specify how to do this. By searching the web I have discovered that there is a program called xawtv-remote, but running it simultaneously with xawtv has produced no results, I suspect because I have not properly configured the remote for use with the program.

3. Have LIRC, running at boot time so that pressing some button on the remote can do specific tasks, such as start and stop programs like xawtv.

I have come across a command called "irrecord". This should theoretically allow me to configure my remote so that I can specify what buttons do what commands.

But when I try to run it, I get errors:
dave (at) homebase:~$ irrecord hauppauge_150
irrecord - application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc
Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus(lirc (at) bartelmus.de)
irrecord: could not open /dev/lirc
irrecord: default_init(): Permission denied
irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check permissions)

If "lircd" is already running, what is it doing?

Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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Dave M G

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