Hello I have been working on this project for a few days now. I have everything working for the most part. I am just on the last part of the project. The IR Blaster. I am having some problems with it. I used the instructions at http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/my ... _LIRC.html I thought i did it correctly or followed them. I am getting an error when i am trying to test it out. I get a Connection Refused.

I have tried to search and read the forums but i havent been able to figure anything out. Any help would be great. Thank you

Dave

hi dave,

i'm the author of that howto. what exactly are you doing to generate the error, and at which step in my process does it occur? just so we are on the same page, you are running knoppmyth, right? (=debian). did you follow my process verbatim, and did you notice any type of error messages along the way? if you can provide me a little more detail about your troubles i'm pretty sure i can figure out what is amiss.

jim

$ ./myth-ledxmit.sh lirc-0.7.0pre7
./myth-ledxmit.sh: Copying lirc source directory...
./myth-ledxmit.sh: Moving lirc directories
./myth-ledxmit.sh: Moving lirc files
mv: cannot move `./drivers/lirc_sasem/lirc_sasem.c' to `./drivers/ledxmit_sasem/lirc_sasem.c': No such file or directory

So I added in your script:


echo "$0: Moving lirc directories"
mv ./drivers/lirc_atiusb ./drivers/ledxmit_atiusb
# note, comment out the next line if you are using a LIRC version < 0.7.0
mv ./drivers/lirc_mceusb ./drivers/ledxmit_mceusb
mv ./drivers/lirc_bt829 ./drivers/ledxmit_bt829
mv ./drivers/lirc_dev ./drivers/ledxmit_dev
mv ./drivers/lirc_gpio ./drivers/ledxmit_gpio
mv ./drivers/lirc_i2c ./drivers/ledxmit_i2c
mv ./drivers/lirc_it87 ./drivers/ledxmit_it87
mv ./drivers/lirc_parallel ./drivers/ledxmit_parallel
mv ./drivers/lirc_serial ./drivers/ledxmit_serial
mv ./drivers/lirc_sir ./drivers/ledxmit_sir
mv ./drivers/lirc_sasem ./drivers/ledxmit_sasem

^ this last line I added to see if it would help. It kinda did. I then get it to run, then at the end of the run, I get this:

checking for Linux kernel sources... /tmp/LEDXMITMF.ZHyba4:260: arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
/tmp/LEDXMITMF.ZHyba4:543: Rules.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `Rules.make'. Stop.
/tmp/LEDXMITMF.ZHyba4:260: arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
/tmp/LEDXMITMF.ZHyba4:543: Rules.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `Rules.make'. Stop.
/tmp/LEDXMITMF.ZHyba4:260: arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
/tmp/LEDXMITMF.ZHyba4:543: Rules.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `Rules.make'. Stop.
./configure: line 7787: test: -eq: unary operator expected
/usr/src/linux/
checking for which drivers can be installed on this system...
checking for caraca_init in -lcaraca_client... no
checking for ir_strerror in -lirman... no
checking for ir_strerror in -lirman_sw... no
checking for portaudio.h... no
checking for alsa/asoundlib.h... yes
checking for snd_pcm_open in -lasound... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating drivers/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_serial/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_sir/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_parallel/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_i2c/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_gpio/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_dev/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_it87/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_bt829/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_atiusb/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_mceusb/Makefile
creating drivers/ledxmit_sasem/Makefile
creating daemons/Makefile
creating tools/Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating doc/man/Makefile
creating config.h

You will have to use the ledxmit_serial kernel module.

Now enter 'make' and 'make install' to compile and install the package.

./myth-ledxmit.sh: Running make
cd . && \
/bin/sh /home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/missing --run automake --gnu Makefile
configure.in:18: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
configure.in:1058: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
configure.in:17: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
configure.in:17: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4
configure.in:17: with aclocal and run automake again.
WARNING: `automake' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd . && \
CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
CONFIG_FILES=Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
creating Makefile
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP'
Making all in drivers
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers'
cd .. && \
CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
CONFIG_FILES=drivers/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
creating drivers/Makefile
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers'
Making all in ledxmit_dev
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
cd ../.. && \
CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
CONFIG_FILES=drivers/ledxmit_dev/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
creating drivers/ledxmit_dev/Makefile
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
mv Makefile Makefile.automake
cp ../Makefile.kernel Makefile
make -C /usr/src/linux/ SUBDIRS=/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev modules \
KBUILD_VERBOSE=1
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.25-chw'
Makefile:260: arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
Makefile:543: Rules.make: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `Rules.make'. Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.25-chw'
make[3]: *** [ledxmit_dev.o] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joseph/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Any thoughts or help. Thanks for creating this. I am really excited about using it!

-Joseph

joseph,

thanks for the patch to fix the new driver in the lirc pre7 tree. i'm going to add that to my web page script.

regarding your specific problem...

first, can you post the output of the following:

$ uname -a
$ dmesg | grep "Linux version"
$ gcc -v
$ where make

next, which version of knoppmyth did you install, or is this a non-knoppmyth setup that you DIY'd?

on my knoppmyth system the script and the lirc pre7 compile run straight through without error, once your edit is in place. see info below for comparison...

regards
jim

jds@mythtv:~ $ cd /tmp

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ wget http://lirc.sourceforge.net/software/sn ... e7.tar.bz2
21:56:56 (85.56 KB/s) - `lirc-0.7.0pre7.tar.bz2' saved [452630/452630]

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ bzip2 -d *bz2 ; tar xf *7.tar

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ ~/myth-ledxmit.sh lirc-0.7.0pre7
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Copying lirc source directory...
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Moving lirc directories
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Moving lirc files
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Renaming lirc vars in files
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Renaming LIRC vars in files
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Restoring exec permissions
/home/jds/myth-ledxmit.sh: Running configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

<... snipped 'cause joe got it all working and this was way too long ...>

make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/myth-ledxmit.WIP'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/myth-ledxmit.WIP'
jds@mythtv:~ $

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,ob
jc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib -
-enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gn
u --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc
i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20030812 (Debian prerelease)

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ where make
make is /usr/bin/make

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ uname -a
Linux mythtv 2.4.21-xfs #1 SMP Thu Oct 2 17:33:33 PDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux

jds@mythtv:/tmp $ dmesg | grep "Linux version"
Linux version 2.4.21-xfs (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Thu Oct 2 17:33:33 PDT 2003

but perhaps now i see your problem.

you may have to unpack your kernel sources, see
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1935
for info and tips.

based on the info in
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1357
it goes something like this:


although i don't recall having to do this with knoppmyth R4V2. (?)

jim

Great, I have it working now!

But... I can't find the right codes for my DSS. I have an older Sony SAT-A2 DSS. It uses the RM-Y130 remote which I can't figure out how to configure the ledxmitd.conf file to get it to work.

Any help?

I get the blinky led which is good, but I need the right codes for my dss...

BTW, thanks again for this code and scripting, it is very cool to be able to control devices this way. Plus, it cost me nothing. I had the parts at my shop.

-Joseph

gonna tell us what you had to do?



see
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/sony/
and try the config file from any of the similar sony remotes -- e.g. the RM-Y135. myth doesn't have to send your receiver any fancy functions to change the channel -- just the numbers. and my bet is that most of the sony stuff uses similar keycodes for the numbers. you just have to find one that has working numbers, and you're in.



if that's the case, you are 99% of the way there. just need the config file, and like i said, only the basic stuff (like the numbers) has to work.



what kind of shop?

regards,
jim

It was a function of having to get the source unzipped and reset the link so I could compile to it. I should have thought of that before... duh...

Now, I got the remote totally working. I just happened to read the rm-y500 should work with the dss receiver and IT DOES!

I just have to finish with the script and I should be on my way. I assume, cause I haven't looked yet, that I can have both the cable (pvr-250 tuner) and the DSS both working and myth will autoswitch based on the configuration I use between the two sets of channels.

So far, everything is going very very cool. You open source guys are the BEST!

My shop manufactures area measurement equipment. We also do engineering contract work and are an official Atmel AVR consultant. So I have electronics up the wazoo for prototyping. Being the president has its advantages allowing me to "borrow" parts for experiments. www.measurearea.com (cheap plug for my invention)

Again, guys, thanks... This blows tivo away in every way, shape, and form. I will never conform to doing things the "commercial" way. It's the experimental way or die trying!

-Joseph Gottlieb (yes, also the pinball family)