XBMC, lirc, remotes, harmony?

Hi, I have a pretty simple remote setup that I wanted to replace with a Harmony 650, as they were on special. However I haven't been able to get it going, since I've been working off many partial tutorials. Wondering if anyone here has some advice. I'm running XBMC Eden on Ubuntu Oneiric. I have a similar desktop I'm testing this new remote on, with the goal of switching it over on the actual HTPC once I have a working setup. I have 3 receivers to choose from. 1) A $20 'mce compatible' remote I got from Dick Smith. It just sends keyboard events, which work great right now with XBMC, no need for lirc. 2) A TwinHan receiver, as documented here: http://www.doctort.org/adam/general/update-on-twinhan-remote-for-mythbuntu-8... I believe it's quite flakey. I did get it to work using lirc as documented on that webpage, but it broke on an upgrade at one point, hence replacing it with the system above. 3) A HP OVU400102, which I thought from reading was the most compatible with the Harmony, and setup would be a piece of cake. It hasn't been. As I said, I've found many 'partial' tutorials, mostly people posting on XBMC forums with similar setups. I've run dpkg-reconfigure lirc more times than I can count, hand edited hardware.conf too many times, laughed at: lircd-0.9.0[8283]: you are using an obsolete devinput config file: Success lircd-0.9.0[8283]: get the new version at http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput: Success this a few times. Right now, I can't even get irw to spit out keycodes. Has anyone been in a similar situation? - What should I configure the Harmony device as? A generic MCE remote? The reciever in question? - How do I configure the reciever in lirc? Generic devinput? A specific reciever? And this is before I then get to trying to match up keycodes in XBMC to get it all talking properly. Any advice? cheers, / Brett
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Brett Pemberton