Setting up IR remote for AVerTV Digi Volar X in Debian
AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T Volar X (A815) is an Avermedia usb device able to capture DVB-T signals.
It provides an IR remote device, which we are going to set up in this post.
To properly configure the whole device see previous post
INSTALLING AND SETTING UP LIRC
LIRC stands for 'Linux Infra-red Remote Control'.
It provides the daemons and some utilities to support infra-red remote controls under Linux.
http://lirc.org
$ sudo aptitude install lirc
We investigate about IR devices present in our system:
$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -n10 a815
187-I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0004
188-N: Name="ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device"
189-P: Phys=
190-S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input19
191-U: Uniq=
192-H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event19 rfkill
193-B: PROP=0
194-B: EV=3
195-B: KEY=ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffe
196-
