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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:08 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:57 PM, richard Woelk <richardwoelk at gmail.com> wrote:
...
>> 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.


There was a thread about this on either the lirc list or this list in
just the past few weeks. I dunno what might have changed where, but
lircd has used an int type for codes for some time now as far as I
know (I rarely touch the userspace side, mostly just the kernel
side...), and I believe the root problem is that the raw code values
in that config file for a number of devices exceed the upper bound an
int type can hold. I've been meaning to talk to Christoph about it.
Never noticed it myself, as my box uses the 0_85 codes, which are all
well within range.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com