[mythtv-users] IR Problem with FC4

Matt Rude mythtv-users at mattrude.com
Tue Jan 10 18:56:04 UTC 2006


Les-
I tryed this with no luck.
thanks
-Matt

Quoting Les Gondor <les at totalgraphix.ca>:

> Seth Art wrote:
>> Adam, Mat, and anyone else who can help,
>>
>> I am having the same problem actually.  I am using a different remote
>> control/tuner card (leadtek WinFast cool command) however.  I have been
>> reading reading all of the lirc documentation over the last couple of
>> days but its mostly for compiling the kernel mod and device yourself.  I
>> am using the atrmps distro for all of my myth/lirc stuff and these are
>> the packages I have installed:
>>
>> [root at fedora ~]# yum list *lirc*
>> Setting up repositories
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> Installed Packages
>> lirc.i386                                0.8.0-54_cvs20060107.r
>> installed
>> lirc-devices.noarch                      0.7.0-1.rhfc4.at
>> <http://0.7.0-1.rhfc4.at>       installed
>> lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp.i686      0.8.0-54_cvs20060107.r
>> installed
>> lirc-lib.i386                             0.8.0-54_cvs20060107.r
>> installed
>> lirc-lib-devel.i386                      0.8.0-54_cvs20060107.r installed
>>
>>
>> I also just have a lircd  in the  /dev directory:
>>
>> [root at fedora ~]# ls -l /dev/lir*
>> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root 0 Jan 10 12:41 /dev/lircd
>>
>> When i run "lircd -n as root I do not see any errors:
>>
>> [root at fedora ~]# lircd -n
>> lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2954]: lircd(userspace) ready
>> ^H^H
>> lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2954]: caught signal
>>
>> When I run irw it automatically kills my lircd if it is running, but
>> does not sit there and listen for commands.  It just exits right away.
>> Is this the normal behavior?  I do remember at one time that when i ran
>> irw is actually did receive a signal from one of the buttons on my
>> remote, but unfortunately I have made the problem worse.
>>
>> Any help is definitely appreciated.   I can't wait to get this working
>> so that I can transfer all of my myth commands from my leadtek remote to
>> my all-in-on.   Now that will be impressive!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Seth
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/10/06, *Adam Propeck* <adam at propeck.com <mailto:adam at propeck.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Well, this would be specific to the remote "receiver" you are using.
>>     I'm assuming that you are using the one that comes with the PVR-350.
>>
>>     What do you see when you run 'ls -l /dev/lir*' as root? You should
>>     at a minimum have an lircd file, but you may have an lirc0 file
>>     which might be the one to point to. Also tell me the output of
>>     running 'lircd -n' as root. You may have to run 'service lircd stop'
>>     first. Give me those and I'll check into some of the specific
>>     PVR-350 settings in the mean time. Lirc was a big problem for me as
>>     it seems that the directions are extremely vague for anyone not
>>     using the 250 and 150. Since I have a USB Uirt, I had to figure some
>>     of it out on my own. I still need to figure out how to rebuild Myth
>>     with lirc support built-in.
>>
>>     On 1/10/06, *Matt Rude* < mythtv-users at mattrude.com
>>     <mailto:mythtv-users at mattrude.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         So what execting file should I link to? or am I missing a file?
>>         -Matt
>>
>>         Quoting Adam Propeck <adam at propeck.com <mailto:adam at propeck.com>>:
>>
>>>  I don't know which /dev file you should be linking the
>>         /dev/lirc file to
>>>  with the PVR-350, but I would recommend that at least while
>>         you test, just
>>>  use (as root or via sudo) 'lircd -n' to see the messages
>>         immediately and
>>>  then you don't have to go and look for them. I have a
>>         USB-UIRT, and so I
>>>  ended up having to edit the /etc/sysconfig/lircd file to show
>>         -h uirt2
>>>  --device=/dev/ttyUSB0   I'd expect that you simply need to
>>         edit your file
>>>  appropriately.
>>>
>>>  On 1/9/06, Matt Rude < mythtv-users at mattrude.com
>>         <mailto:mythtv-users at mattrude.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I have Mythtv running on FC4 with a PVR-350. Everything is
>>         running but the
>>> > remote control. I have installed lirc & lirc-kmdl via yum
>>         along with the
>>> > reset
>>> > of the Mythtv suite. I edited my modprobe.conf file and ran these
>>> > commands.
>>> >
>>> > $mkdir /home/mythtv/.mythtv
>>> > $wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/lircrc-haupgrey-g3.txt
>>> > $mv lircd-haupgrey-g3.conf.txt ~/.mythtv/lircrc
>>> > $/sbin/depmod -a
>>> > $/sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
>>> > $/sbin/chkconfig lircd on
>>> > $/sbin/service lircd start
>>> >
>>> > Once this is done I can try to run /usr/bin/irw and the
>>         program exits. if
>>> > I look
>>> > at my messages file I get as below. A list for /dev/lircd
>>         shows me.
>>> >
>>> > #ll /dev/lir*
>>> > srw-rw-rw-  1 root root 0 Jan  9 20:31 /dev/lircd
>>> >
>>> > I know I need the lirc0 or lirc.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > What am I missing to make this work?
>>> > any help would be nice.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ### tail /var/log/messages  # Fresh after a reboot
>>> > Jan  9 20:28:50 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2280]: lircd(any) ready
>>> > Jan  9 20:30:03 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2280]: accepted new
>>         client on
>>> > /dev/lircd
>>> > Jan  9 20:30:03 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2280]: could not get file
>>> > information for
>>> > /dev/lirc
>>> > Jan  9 20:30:03 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2280]: default_init():
>>         No such file
>>> > or
>>> > directory
>>> > Jan  9 20:30:03 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2280]: caught signal
>>> > Jan  9 20:31:32 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2931]: lircd(any) ready
>>> > Jan  9 20:31:49 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2931]: accepted new
>>         client on
>>> > /dev/lircd
>>> > Jan  9 20:31:49 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2931]: could not get file
>>> > information for
>>> > /dev/lirc
>>> > Jan  9 20:31:49 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS[2931]: default_init():
>>         No such file
>>> > or
>>> > directory
>>> > Jan  9 20:31:49 mythtv lircd-0.8.0-CVS [2931]: caught signal
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ### ll /dev/lirc*
>>> > srw-rw-rw-  1 root root 0 Jan  9 20:31 /dev/lircd
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ### cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>>> > # Enable IF
>>> > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
>>> > # From Setup
>>> > alias eth0 e100
>>> > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>>> > options snd-card-0 index=0
>>> > options snd-intel8x0 index=0
>>> > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null
>>         2>&1 || : ; };
>>> > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>>> > alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
>>> > # ivtv modules setup
>>> > alias char-major-81 ivtv
>>> > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>>> > alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
>>> > alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
>>> > install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv;
>>         /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
>>> > install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe
>>         --ignore-install
>>> > lirc_i2c
>>> > install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
>>         snd-emu10k1 &&
>>> > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>>> > remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1
>>         || : ; };
>>> > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Matt
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>
> A quick llook at Jarod Wilson's guide to installing Myth on Fedora 
> Core reveals that for the /dev
> entries to be created by udev, you should modify 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules to contain only the
> line 'KERNEL="lirc0",              SYMLINK="lirc"'.
>
> See http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php for more info.
> --
> Les Gondor, Total Graphics            les at totalgraphix.ca
> If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly
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