The Asus DH Remote Control

The board ships with a remote control and a USB dongle. The dongle identifies itself as a USB HID device. I wasn't able to configure lircd for this remote with lircd's native drivers but Raj B Apte hacked the dvico driver and got the remote working =)

Hopefully a lircd developer writes a propper driver for it in the future, but for now Raj's "hack" works fine.

Download the hacked lircd 0.8.0 tarball (md5) an configure the sources to compile the dvico driver.

Sample lircd configuration for Debian:

• /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
• /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
• ~/.lircrc

Configuration for other distributions shouldn't be too different. File names and locations may vary of course.

Please note: "lircd.conf" is not used, but required to be set up in any case.

Update 20070321 (YMD)

Brice DUBOST just informed me that his (revised) Asus DH Remote Control patch made it into lirc CVS =)

For the less initiated: that basically means than any future vanilly lirc releases may very well already ship with Asus DH support out-of-the-box.
Thanks Brice!