[mythtv-users] Newb frustration with LIRC, IR Blasters, etc.

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:08:22AM -0700, Pete Cap wrote:
> Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:05:54AM -0700, Pete Cap wrote:
> > This is quite right.  None of the guides I have found begin with
> > "Having installed everything the easy way from ATRPMs..."
> 
> you are really very new around here :)
> Let me introduce you to "Jarod's guide":
> 
>     http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> 
> I should be more clear.  I did use Jarod's guide for the initial
> setup and installation.  It took about 90 minutes, including the
> initial database fill and everything else (compared to several days
> trying workarounds for this and that under CentOS).  What I meant
> was, I could not find any guides for setting up an IR Blaster using
> LIRC that did not begin with the assumption that you needed to build
> everything from source (which requires the kernel sources, which is
> why I'm in the current dilemma).

Then let me introduce you to google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=atrpms+lirc+blaster

> Jarod's guide, AFAIK, contains no information on setting up an IR
> blaster.  If I can just set up the blaster with LIRC as it is
> currently installed, so much the better--it honestly seems as if it
> should not be *nearly* this complicated to get a serial device to
> flash lights!

There seem to be more than one guide for setting up IR blasters with
ATrpms support. In fact even the first 10 hits from google contain 3
such guides ...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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