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| Author: | douw [ Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | IRBlaster problems in R5D1 - RESOLVED |
I posted this on [i]Usage/How To[/i], but had no reaction. So I'll try here: I just installed R5D1, and everything looks great. The only thing I cannot get working is irblaster. I use a homebrew irblaster from iguana.net on the first com port, with a [i]one-for-all[/i] universal remote. I captured the codes for my satellite box and for an unused vcr funtion on the remote that I plan to use to control mythtv. [b]channel_change.sh[/b] and [b]irw[/b] works fine, but nothing happens in mythtv. I truncated [b]/home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc[/b] to the following to make sure nothing in it is corrupt:[code]begin prog = mythtv remote = VCR button = up config = Up end begin prog = mythtv remote = VCR button = down config = Down end begin prog = mythtv remote = VCR button = left config = Left end begin prog = mythtv remote = VCR button = right config = Right end[/code]all of which matches irblasterd.conf exactly. When I try [code]ircat mythtv[/code]or [code]irexec -n mythtv[/code]I get:[code]mythtv: Connection refused mythtv: Cannot connect to socket[/code] I figured out that I can get either the remote control in myth working or the channel_change.sh, but not both at the same time. I do this by either enabling or disabling the main lirc device in [b]/etc/lirc/hardware.conf[/b] with the following:[code]DRIVER="default"[/code]or[code]DRIVER="null"[/code]When it is set to [i]default[/i], the remote works in mythtv, when it is [i]null[/i], the irblaster works. The irblaster works once upon startup and then promplty crashes when channel_change.sh is executed again. The only relevant error I can find in the logs is in daemon.log:[code]could not connect to device /dev/irblasterd [/code] If I restart lirc and irblaster then they stay up, but mythtv doesn't catch the keypresses from the remote. mode2, irw, ircat etc. all works as expected from then on. I tried to recompile lirc from the sources included and also from lirc-0.8.0, but that did not help. I'm not sure whether I did the recopile correctly as I can't see any different modules being used in daemon.log Any help will be greatly appreciated. |
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| Author: | douw [ Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Resolved |
I got it working by killing lirc in /etc/init.d and symlinking /dev/lircd to /dev/irblasterd. If anyone is interested in the details let me know I will post the whole thing. |
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| Author: | ihatetivo [ Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | stoppinglirc |
Question: What command do you use to stop (temporarily) LIRC? I have found the following command, but it doesn't seem to work. It gives me a message that it doesnt understand the "service" command. I'm a totally inexperienced user, so I apologize for the easy question. /sbin/service lircd stop |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:52 pm ] |
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Try: [code]/etc/init.d/lirc stop[/code] |
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| Author: | ihatetivo [ Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | lirc stop/start question resolved |
[quote="tjc"]Try: [code]/etc/init.d/lirc stop[/code][/quote] That works perfectly. Many thanks. |
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| Author: | douw [ Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:21 am ] |
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No, I removed it from the rc's completely with: [code]update-rc.d lirc remove[/code]only irblaster starts and loads lirc-serial. |
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| Author: | douw [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | R5E50 |
After upgrading to R5E50, I had to redo the above procedure. Here are the steps I followed:
For some reason I couldn't get the symlink to stick past a reboot, I'm no linux expert, so I just added: Code: ln -s /dev/irblasterd /dev/lircd to the irblaster init script in /etc/init.d just after it creates the irblasterd device.
Please do comment on what you think of my procedure. Douw. |
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