[mythtv-users] irman & lirc help
Jeff Wormsley
daworm at comcast.net
Mon May 16 01:31:49 UTC 2005
Andy O'Brien wrote:
>Hey Jeff, I have a similar problem to the one discussed below sometime
>back, hoping you can help:
>
>I have an "old" IRman plugged into com1 on my system, but can't get it
>to take input at all.
>
>I did the changes you suggested below, changed the symlink for
>/dev/lirc to point to /dev/ttyS0
>
I didn't make that change on mine, although I have seen where others
needed it.
>, lircd starts ok, but irrecord
>doesn't work and irw just exits to prompt immediately. Am I missing
>something? Below is some of my settings, my box is sucessfully
>connected via firewire, just using the remote to control myth.
>
>[root at localhost dev]# /sbin/service lircd start
>Starting infrared remote control daemon: [ OK ]
>[root at localhost dev]# ps -ef | grep lircd
>root 5164 1 0 14:58 ? 00:00:00 lircd --driver=irman
>--device=/dev/ttyS0
>
[root at mythtv ~]# ps -ef | grep lircd
root 4441 1 0 May08 ? 00:00:00 lircd --driver=irman
--device=/dev/ttyS14
>root 5168 4799 0 14:59 pts/2 00:00:00 grep lircd
>
>
root 27076 27033 0 21:26 pts/5 00:00:00 grep lircd
>[root at localhost dev]# irw
>[root at localhost dev]# cd /dev/lir*
>-bash: cd: /dev/lirc: Not a directory
>[root at localhost dev]# ls -l /dev/lir*
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 15 14:52 /dev/lirc -> ttyS0
>crw------- 1 root root 61, 0 May 15 14:19 /dev/lirc0
>srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 May 15 14:58 /dev/lircd
>
>
[root at mythtv ~]# ll /dev/lir*
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 May 8 21:15 /dev/lircd
I think the symlink you may need is from /dev/lirc0 to /dev/lirc, not
ttyS0. The command line parameter should take care of pointing to ttyS0.
>If I switch the lirc link to point to lirc0 I get a connection refused
>when running irw.
>
>
I hope this helps. I'm not much of a guru. I just got mine to work and
hoped what I did would work for others, since I didn't see any single
source for the info.
Jeff.
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