[mythtv-users] IR Blaster and LIRC RPMs

[scott at tbwifi.ca]

> On 24/04/2008, scott at tbwifi.ca <scott at tbwifi.ca> wrote:
>> In the case of the newer distributions like Mandriva 2008 which I am
>>  using, can one use the RPM's packaged with the distro to control an ir
>>  Blaster?
>>
>>  RPM's available to me are:
>>
>>  lib64lirc0
>>  lirc
>>  lirc-remotes
>>
>>  I am looking for the easy route if it is available to me.  I know for
>>  using lirc to receive ir signals I didn't need to compile anything.
>> For
>>  lirc serial it may be more complex.
>
> You shouldn't have to compile your own version of LIRC unless you need
> multiple copies of it running at the same time, sharing the same LIRC
> kernel module. If you only need to use lirc_serial for the IR blaster,
> you should be fine with a single LIRC installation.
>
> Grab or record a suitable config for your IR blaster to use and test
> it using irsend, More details on the LIRC site at
> http://lirc.org/html/irsend.html.
>
I have placed the dish/bell config from
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DISHNetworkLIRCConfiguration
into lircd.conf and started lircd.  When I try an irsend command like
irsend LIST REMOTE "", I get could not connect to socket.

I suspect that I am missing some steps somewhere.  Unfortunately the
howto's   are written for compiled versions or different distros.

Can anyone offer some pointers?

Scott