X10 Wireless Tranceiver and Medion OR28V RF Remote in Fedora 14

Having the computer plugged into the TV is a wonderful thing, and it's very handy being able to use the remote control. Getting it working, though, was a little tricky.



The signals are picked up by a tranceiver that's identified by lsusb as
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0bc7:0006 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc. Wireless Transceiver (ACPI-compliant)

The important bit is the ID of 0bc7:0006, and it's this that lets google do most of the work.

First of all, it's misidentifed by the system, and the wrong module - ati-remote - is added. To get rid of this, we have to add a line (as root) to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist ati_remote will ensure that the module isn't loaded.

Once that's done, it's just a matter of specifying the right driver in /etc/sysconfig/lirc
The line LIRC_DRIVER="" has to be changed to read
LIRC_DRIVER="atilibusb"
Again, you have to be root to do this.

Then it's just a matter of starting lirc and you're away;
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lirc restart
will do this.

As for the remote, it's just a matter of getting the right config file. This can be done tediously over many hours with irrecord or, if you prefer, you can just use mine.
I didn't make this myself; I found many moons ago on a German Ubuntu forum, so many thanks to the anonymous nerd who put it together. It's at http://pastebin.com/8NJV80Lu.
Put this (as root again) into /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and you're ready to go.