FLIRC

Bought a FLIRC USB device to interface with my RISCOS Pi model B. This is ‘supposed’ to appear as a USB keyboard to the computer. It does with other OS but with RISCOS – zilch. :(

The device is recognised by RISCOS using *USBdevices. *USBdevinfo and *USBconfinfo both report apparently sensible information, the latter command indicating that it is a HID.

Has anyone had any success with getting this to work or is it up to me to work from first principles? Any help would be very much appreciated.

- John

Try using !HID from here

Thanks for the tip, Chris. Unfortunately this crashes my RISCOS installation and the FLIRC device still refuses to play.

I have managed to open a USB pipe to the device and it is recognised but as yet I cannot read any data from it.

I did manage to get it to send some bytes through to my BBC Master through a Datacentre USB socket but all it did was announce itself!

It works a treat using OSMC on the Pi and in BBC Basic for Windows on my PC.

- John

You do not say which exact verstion of RISC OS you are using … this could be critical! Both the version and the date would be useful from the Info box from the menu over the Task Manager icon (very right).

You seem to have somehow created two different userids (numbers 3154 and 3155) which could confuse at some time!

Does it crash when you plug the FLIRC in after !HID is run or are you plugging the FLIRC in first?

@Martin

I have used RISCOS versions RC14 and RC08. !HID appears to work OK with the normal USB keyboard but does not recognise the FLIRC device. It hangs with RC08.

Sorry – I’ve deleted account 3154.

@Chris
!Hid only hangs my machine with RC08. It did not matter whether the FLIRC device was present on boot up or inserted later.