[mythtv-users] Trouble with lirc and HD-PVR on Fedora 12

[John Welch]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:57 PM, richard Woelk <richardwoelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/12/2010 13:37, John Welch wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:36 PM, John Welch<jrw3319 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a Fedora 12 Mythtv back-end system with myth packages coming
>>> from the ATrpms repo.  Around the turn of the year I had my HD-PVR
>>> fully operational, including IR transmitter, using the info from the
>>> MythTV wiki.  For various reasons I haven't used the HD-PVR for a
>>> while, but now that I am trying to use it again I am having some
>>> problems with lirc and the IR transmitter.  Per the HD-PVR wiki
>>> instructions I have the lirc_zilog (and lirc_dev) modules loaded, but
>>> yet no lirc devices exists under /dev.
>>>
>>> Trying to troubleshoot the issue I unloaded the lirc_zilog module and
>>> stopped the lirc service; then I tried starting from scratch.  When I
>>> manually load the lirc_zilog module I see the following in
>>> /var/log/messages:
>>> Apr 10 15:58:47 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver
>>> registered, major 249
>>> Apr 10 15:58:47 localhost kernel: lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR
>>> driver initializing
>>> Apr 10 15:58:47 localhost kernel: lirc_zilog: initialization complete
>>>
>>> To me this seems to indicate that the module(s) loaded successfully
>>> and if I run an lsmod the lirc_zilog and lirc_dev modules do appear.
>>> However, I'm still not seeing an lirc device showing up in /dev.
>>> Continuing on I restarted the lirc service.  When I do this I get
>>> several thousand messages like the following showing up in
>>> /var/log/messages:
>>>
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: "2195390513" is out of range
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: error in configfile line
>>> 30938:
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: "2195390514" is out of range
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: error in configfile line
>>> 30940:
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: "2195390515" is out of range
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: error in configfile line
>>> 30942:
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: "2195390541" is out of range
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: error in configfile line
>>> 30944:
>>> Apr 10 16:02:01 localhost lircd-0.8.6[6055]: "2195390542" is out of range
>>>
>>> These messages are apparently being generated due to an issue with my
>>> lircd.conf file.  The thing is I haven't made any changes to this file
>>> at all since I had things working.  I also re-downloaded the
>>> lircd.conf referenced in the MythTV HD-PVR wiki page, and verified
>>> that it is the same one that I am using.
>>>
>>> At this point I am stumped.  Since the time I had things working there
>>> have been a few kernel updates and also mythtv package updates, so I
>>> guess it is possible that one of these updates is causing the problem.
>>>  But I haven't been able to find any info on this issue, and I have to
>>> believe others have a similar setup.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm still having issues with this.
>> Can anyone at least confirm that they have this modules (lirc_zilog)
>> and this device (the IR transmitter of the HD-PVR) working on an F12
>> system with the latest kernel (2.6.32.11-99)?  The fact that the
>> module appears to load OK based on the messages I am seeing seems to
>> indicate a problem with the module and/or kernel.  But I really have
>> no idea what I am talking about, so maybe I'm out to lunch on this
>> assessment.  Shouldn't the lirc device be created when the module
>> loads?  If not, is it typically created when the service is started?
>> In either case I had this working with minimal effort with the help of
>> the directions in the HD-PVR wiki page.  So unless the wiki is
>> outdated something appears to be amiss.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> John
>>
>
> John,
>    I did experience this as well when I tried to set up the blaster, The big
> remote ID numbers in lircd.conf are too big for lircd, and the daemon will
> stop loading when it encounters these. I don't know how big is too big, but
> removing all the the 10 digit numbers fixed it. My problem is that most of
> the choices for my motorola STB were big numbers. I went back to my MCE USB
> device.
>    I also found a connection issue with the newer version of lirc. The
> /dev/lirc0 device is created by the module loading, but what used to be
> /dev/lircd, is now /var/run/lirc/lircd. This is created after lircd runs.
>
> - Richard
>
>
>
>
Richard,

Thanks you so much for the response.  I was beginning to think I was
alone with this problem.  I don't have anything fixed yet, but at
least you've given me a few leads to explore.  Obviously something has
changed in the kernel module or the lirc package because as I have
stated I did have this all working.

Thanks again,
John