[mythtv-users] Hdhomerun IR with imon VFD questions

[Neil Salstrom]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Neil Salstrom <salstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Neil Salstrom <salstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> Using the HDHomerun I compile the udp driver in lirc but at the same
>>>> time do I need to compile lirc_imon, modprobe the lirc_imon module but
>>>> run lirc in udp mode?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> I've played around with sever different iterations of this however I
>>>> either only get the VFD working with mythtv or the remote working but
>>>> not both.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Nothing off the top of my head. Should simply be a matter of setting
>>> the right parameters for lircd to only care about the udp signals from
>>> the hdhomerun, regardless of whether or not there's another driver
>>> loaded.
>>>
>>> In a saner future, coming soon to a kernel near you, the imon driver
>>> won't be an lirc driver... :)
>>>
>>> (There's a new non-lirc imon driver that has been merged in the
>>> upstream kernel for 2.6.35).
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for then info Jarod.  That will be great when imon is part of 2.6.35!
>>
>> Sorry to take this a bit off topic from mythtv (but maybe it will help
>> others)...
>>
>> When compiling lirc how do I pass both the udp and imon drivers to the
>> ./configure command?  I've tried ./configure --enable-driver=udp,imon
>> but only one gets built.  I've also tried two separate --enable-driver
>> with no success.  I then tried --enable-driver=all but had one that
>> threw errors during compile.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
> I have vague recollections of the 'all' option getting fixed in recent
> cvs, don't remember what the exact problem was though. You can just
> build in two passes, first do a build w/imon, install lirc_imon.ko,
> then do a build w/udp and install everything. At least, I'm reasonably
> sure that should work. I rarely do anything but a
> --with-driver=userspace build from lirc sources, I maintain the
> drivers elsewhere in a git tree (which I also use to patch the lirc
> drivers into the Fedora kernels).
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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I'll give that a go tonight and see what I can come up with.  It was
about two days ago that I tried the "all" option.  I see in that was
fixed.  If not I'll do the two step build.

Thanks again.