Hi, I have built a mythtv box, but cannot get the IR
transmitter to work.

Specs:

Knoppmtyh Release 5 F27
TV Card : Hauppauge Wintv Go Plus w/ remote
(silver/dogbone?)
Video Card: Nvidia

The Myth TV part seems to be working fine. I can
record and playback shows fine. I can even get the
Hauppauge remote to work fine to change menus on
mythtv. The irw commands work fine. However, I cannot
get the IR transmitter to change the channels on the
cable set top box.

From what i understand, I do not have a serial
transmitter. Most of the docs i see out there mention
serial IR transmitter and requiring two lirc
instances. Mine is part of the cable that comes out
of the IR port on the Hauppauge card. Basically, the IR port on the
card has a cable plugged into it that splits out to an
IR receiver and an IR transmitter. The IR receiver
works fine. I cannot get the IR transmitter to work.

When I do a:

I get this error:


When I run:

That gives back a response. I'm thinking this command
only looks at the /etc/lircd.conf command and not
actually send anything to the IR transmitter.

Syslog says:



I tried this with lircd-0.8.2 and still had the same
problems, so I decided to get the newest lirc and
compile it myself. I compiled lirc 0.8.3 with:
I got some errors when doing the make and make
install, something about not able to find crtbeginS.o
It seemed to install okay since the logs are showing
the newer version of lirc. I'm not that familiar w/
compiling programs. Is there a way to check if I've
setup lirc okay?



I have several entries in /etc/lircd.conf
DCT700 is the cable box set top box model. I've put
those codes in /etc/lircd.conf.
lircd.conf also has entries for: blaster, Hauppauge,
hauppauge_pvr, Hauppauge_350

From my understanding, the lircd.conf should have
entries for the cable tv stb (IR transmit) and the
remote control unit (IR receiver).

It seems that I can specify anything (e.g., DCT700,
junk, blah, etc.) in the IRSEND command and get the
same error message.




Some other specs:

crw-rw-r-- 1 root video 61, 0 Jun 2 02:25 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 2 02:25 /dev/lircd

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dmesg | grep lirc
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major
61
lirc_i2c: chip 0x10005 found @ 0x71 (Hauppauge PVR150)
---> Not sure why it says PVR150.
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10

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root@mythtv:/usr/src/mylirc/lirc-0.8.3# lsmod | grep lir
lirc_i2c 12420 2
lirc_dev 16644 1 lirc_i2c
i2c_core 20864 20
ivtv,lirc_i2c,i2c_ec,cx88_vp3054_i2c,cx88xx,saa7134_dvb,saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,tda1004x,dvb_bt8xx,tuner,tea5767,tda8290,tuner_simple,mt20xx,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_i801

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# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
LIRCD_ARGS=""
START_LIRCMD=false
LOAD_MODULES=true
DRIVER="default"
DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_i2c"
---------------------------------

root@mythtv:/usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=?
Driver `?' not supported.
Supported drivers:
default

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/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:

/sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
/usr/local/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
--output=/dev/lircd
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Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to give
this to my dad for father's day. It was originally
supposed to be an xmas gift, but I've had so many
problems getting this to work.

Thanks,
Chris