[Q] Getting GPIO MCE IR Receiver to work!

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Hello all,
I am struggling to get the IR receiver to work on my new RPi 2 running OSMC RC. I installed it in the same way as my old original Raspberry Pi.

I enabled the option under RPi settings. Selected the correct LIRC remote config under “Remotes” but i still can’t get it to work.

dmesg | grep lirc returns this:
[ 7.733669] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 246
[ 7.754351] lirc_rpi: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 8.710663] lirc_rpi: auto-detected active high receiver on GPIO pin 17
[ 8.711118] lirc_rpi lirc_rpi: lirc_dev: driver lirc_rpi registered at minor = 0
[ 8.711138] lirc_rpi: driver registered!
[ 9.471707] input: lircd as /devices/virtual/input/input4

What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions as to how I can fix this and get it to work? It worked perfectly under Raspbmc.

Thank you in advance

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What remote do you have?

3

HP MCE Remote

4

In MyOSMC system settings where you enable remote support change the input pin to 18 and output to 17 then retry

5

Thank you @Dilligaf that worked beautifully. I’ve followed the instructions for the original RPi with regards to the GPIO.

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Dilligaf, I’m running RC on a pi2 also don’t see an option to change the pin in the MyOSMC. Am I looking in the right place?

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Should be in PiConfig, are you running RC1 from a fresh install and not updated from an Alpha?

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Dilligaf, I just did a fresh install of RC1 just as a sanity check, but still I don’t see the option in Pi Config.

I’m looking in “Settings - Pi” / “Hardware Support”

I only see

“soundcard_dac”
“Enable LIRC GPIO support” I made sure this is checked
“w1gpio”
“Suppress all overlays”

Under “w1gpio” there are only three options
“none”
the other two are something about overlays and overlay with pullup.

I don’t see anything about pin numbers.

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Have you installed any updates?

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Nope no updates.