[mythtv-users] LIRC + Homebrew IR and Sony remote

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:23:40PM -0400, eric partington wrote:
> I have been searching the archive for any ideas as to how I install LIRC for
> the homebrew IR receiver as shown on the lirc.org site.  I have made the
> receiver and attached it to the COM1 port on my PC.  I removed the LIRC rpm
> that was installed with Jarods guide and tried to reinstall the 0.7pre2 lirc
> CVS snapshot.  All went well, no compilation errors.  At the end of it I had
> /dev/lirc listed as a character device (i.e. No symlink).

Did you load the lirc_serial module? You may need to give it parameters
to tell it which COM port, unless you had to specify those before
compiling.

Does irrecord give any errors, or does it just not receive anything?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>