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##Streamzap Getting the Streamzap USB remote to work under Linux is currently trivial and does NOT require the use of LIRC any more although LIRC does provide the ability to map the same keypress to different actions under a variety of applications.

The repo contains several config files that work with v4l-utils and any modern Linux kernel as well as files to allow operation with LIRC, specifically for mythtv, xbmc, and mplayer.

Option #1 - Full featured operation of mplayer, mythtv, and xbmc using LIRC.

Setup LIRC

  • Install lirc and/or lirc-utils for your distro. For Arch, only lirc-utils is required.
  • Place lircd.conf.streamzap-new in /etc/lirc renaming it to lircd.conf
  • Place 90-streamzap.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d which causes X to ignore the remote without LIRC. This step is required.
  • Restart X if you just did the aforementioned step for the first time.
  • Start lirc using your init system (systemd, openrc, upstart, etc.)

If the included lircd.conf does not work for you, consider generating your own with irrecord.

irrecord --device=/dev/lirc0 streamzap

Follow the included instructions. It is doubtful that the actual scancodes have changed, so you can likely just copy that section into the new file.

For mythtv and mplayer

  • Place the .lirc dir from this repo into your homedir.
  • Place .lircrc into your homedir.
  • For mythtv only, create a symlink in your ~/.mythtv to ~/.lirc/mythtv ln -s ~/.lirc/mythtv ~/.mythtv/mythtv

For XBMC

  • Place Lirc.xml into ~/.xbmc/userdata
  • Place remote.xml into ~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps
XBMC Files and Formats
  • Lircmap.xml - Maps xbmc_buttons to LIRC_buttons. (<xbmc_button>LIRC_button</xbmc_button>)
  • remote.xml - Maps xbmc_buttons to xbmc_actions. (<xbmc_button>action</xbmc_button>)

The two together allow for: LIRC_buttons <--> xbmc_buttons <--> xbmc_actions.

Supplemental Info

Mplayer Links

XBMC Upstream Links

Option #2 - Basic operation of mplayer using only the v4l-utils package.

  • Install the v4l-util package (your distro provides this in all likelyhood).
  • Modify /etc/rc_maps.cfg so the streamzap line points to /etc/rc_keymaps/streamzap.local
--- a/etc/rc_maps.cfg	2013-10-08 18:10:04.478595923 -0400
+++ b/etc/rc_maps.cfg	2013-10-08 16:19:34.150994862 -0400
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@
 *	rc-npgtech               npgtech
 *	rc-leadtek-y04g0051      leadtek_y04g0051
 *	rc-manli                 manli
-*	rc-streamzap             streamzap
+*	rc-streamzap             /etc/rc_keymaps/streamzap.local
 *	rc-winfast-usbii-deluxe  winfast_usbii_deluxe
 *	rc-behold                behold
 *	rc-gadmei-rm008z         gadmei_rm008z
  • streamzap.local should be installed to /etc/rc_keymaps

Supplemental Info

Syntax of /etc/rc_keymaps/streamzap.local

The syntax of the keymap scancode button_name

Show Available Scancodes

Execute ir-keytable without any arguments. Example:

# ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event3) with:
	Driver streamzap, table rc-streamzap
	Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC RC-5-SZ other
	Enabled protocols: RC-5-SZ
	Name: Streamzap PC Remote Infrared Rec
	bus: 3, vendor/product: 0e9c:0000, version: 0x0100
	Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms

Execute ir-keytable --read --device=/dev/input/PATH where PATH is what the previous command outputted (event3 in the example above).

Show Availble Button Names

The lrc-utils package is likely required. Execute irrecord -l to see a list of all available button names.