[mythtv-users] Serial IR receiver should be simplest but...

Jon jon at sd-6.org
Fri Apr 6 05:12:46 UTC 2007



Angus wrote:
> Jon wrote:
>>> The last line of dmesg revealed:
>>>
>>> lirc_serial: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
>>>
>>> I built my own kernel from Suse 10.2's kernel-source. I'll bet that has 
>>> something to do w/it. Is there an easy way to handle that?
>>>     
>> You'll need to compile it against your kernel.
>>   
> 
>     So I do, and so I did. I downloaded the lirc source, then ran make 
> install from the drivers directory. One setserial call later, the module 
> was all ready to install.
> 
>     So my problem now is figuring out how to bind the buttons I 
> programmed in irrecord to MythTV. I found lircrc.example file and 
> changed all the "Button" entries to match what I have in 
> /etc/lircd.conf, but the remote has no affect on the front end. Is it 
> supposed to? I've tried calling the file ~/.lircrc, ~/.mythtv/.lircrc 
> and ~/.mythtv/lircrc which seem to fit all the combinations from all the 
> documentation sprawled across the net, but none of them seem to work.
> 
make it ~/.mythtv/lircrc
also mythfrontend only reads it on startup so restart mythfrontend if
you haven't done so already.  Then check mythfrontend output for lirc
init sucess or something similar.


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