[mythtv-users] Multiple LIRC (serial) transmitters on FC5

[Razza]

Just to clear up, the concept is to control two UK sky digiboxes - not
sure you can change/shift the remote codes on these.
I guess one of the issues I face is that I built from Jarod's guide,
thus using yum packages - so may have to go for a complete build.
Thanks very much for the links, I will take a look through. If anyone
does have config files, they would be very much appreciated ;o)

> On 12/10/06, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Using Jarods guide I have lirc working fine on (either) of my two 
> > serial ports, driving a homebrew serial transmitter, I cant seem to 
> > get lirc to drive two transmitters (one on each com port). I have 
> > done some googling and an unable to find information precise enough 
> > to achieve this, is anyone else doing this on FC5? and more 
> > importantly be able to share their config files - /etc/modprobe.conf
> > /etc/systemconfig/lircd
> > /etc/systemconfig/modules/lirc.modules
>
> Silly question but why 2?
>
> I'm using one instance of lircd on a homebrew transmitter with 3 IR 
> LEDs on it - one for the STB, one for the TV and one for the theatre 
> amp. The codes don't overlap so no problem there. If you are using 2 
> STB then is there an option to set an alternate code set on one of 
> them and just use 2 LEDs in series as I've done?

If you cannot use different remote codesets for both boxes, and need to
use 2 separate serial transmitters, you may need to build 2 independent
installations of LIRC, as LIRC previously would not work when 2 separate
devices needed to use the same kernel module (lirc_serial in this case).

I think it is now possible (haven't done this personally but have seen
write-ups) to run 2 instances of lircd (one per device) from the same
installation of LIRC, which simplifies things no end. I can't say 100%
that this works though, as I've always built a separate instance of LIRC
when faced with this situation. I'm sure there was a link to such a
write-up on the MythTV Wiki, but I can't see the link anymore:

http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Using_an_IR_Blaster_with_MythTV

Building a separate installation of LIRC:
http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_v
ia_Modified_LIRC.html

Nick

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