[mythtv-users] IR Microcontroller -> LIRC Stack

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 8/1/2010 1:37 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Calvin Harrigan
> <charriglists at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
>    
>> Salutations,
>>     I've finally gotten around to building and programming a microcontroller
>> to take care of all things IR related to mythtv, as an added bonus it has
>> facilities to turn on and of a PC based on a settable alarm. Some other
>> niceties are the ability to sense whether the PC and/or blasted device
>> actually turned on via I/O pins.  It has a fully functional IR decoder
>> capable of decoding RC5/RC6/Sony/NEC/DishNetwork, and raw codes.  It can
>> also 'blast' any of the protocols listed above.  The biggest problem I've
>> stumbled across so far is getting the decoded IR signals into the LIRC
>> stack.  I looked at using LIRCs udp driver but realized that mode2 is not
>> exactly what I was looking for.  Mode 2 uses a sequence of pulse/space time
>> packets to represent a signal.  Unfortunately the microcontroller provides
>> decoded values, though I can change the controller to output that format
>> it's not my ideal solution.  I know this is a tech heavy question, but is
>> there a way to get decoded IR codes into the LIRC stack without having to
>> resort to a full blown driver?  Did I misunderstand the way LIRCs udp driver
>> works, i.e, can it use more than mode 2?  I've been googling and reading for
>> hours and just haven't been able to lock down a good solution.  Any help,
>> advice, direction, input, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
>>      
> This is a question better asked over on the lirc mailing list. I don't
> have an answer for you offhand, but Christoph might. You may need to
> provide a bit more detail on the hardware and how its connected to
> whatever its connected to also.
>    
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Sorry about that, it's connected via usb, though through an ftdi chip, 
so it shows up as a plain serial port on the host.
I've been browsing the lirc mailing list, but no luck finding anything 
that would explain what exactly is going on in LIRC.

Thanks for the help either way.