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For Christmas one of the gifts-to-myself was a Logitech Harmony Smart Control . This was to replace an aging Harmony 550 with some button issues. In the course of setting things up I wanted to get IR working with my Xbian installation on the Raspberry Pi. I needed to get an IR receiver and found that this SANOXY remote for ~$15 (at the time of this writing) came with a USB receiver that fit the bill. The smart control uses the Ortek VRC-1100 from the Logitech database for the controls.
Largely this is doubling a set of notes for my own future reference if I have to recreate what I did to get IR working with my Xbian install on a RPi. Conveniently, I hope it helps someone set this up for themselves. The code for the solution came from responses by CurlyMoo in the bug report Vrc-1100 usb remote not working on Github.
I replaced the default /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file with the following: # /etc/lirc/hardware.conf # # Arguments which will be used when launching lircd LIRCD_ARGS="-u"
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