[mythtv-users] mythbuntu 9.10 lirc irblaster serial homebrew hardware.conf

[Björn Lundin]

Hi!
I've been trying for a long time now to get my serial blaster to work.
Stepping down a bit, I now try to get mu serial receiver to work instead,
since it seems more of a standard case.

So I got so far (after finding that my serial ports were disabled in
BIOS) that I
* get a /dev/lirc0 after modprobe of lirc_serial
* mode2 actually seems to work,

I get pulse foo and space bar when I press the remote.
So far so good.

I now try to use irrecord, and this is where I get out of luck.

it does not notice my pressing on the remote

I believe that irecord is dependant on lircd running,
so I think I got the config for lircd wrong.

I'm using a lirc from the mythbubto 9.10 repos, 0.8.6,
and a hardwar.conf found on the net.
The installation does not give me a default one, which seems a bit odd to me...

bnl at ibm:/etc/lirc$ cat hardware.conf

#Chosen IR Transmitter

#
# Arguments which will be used when launching lircd
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
#START_LIRCMD=false

#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
LOAD_MODULES=true

# Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
DRIVER="default"
# If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be
# automatically used instead
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_serial"

# Default configuration files for your hardware if any
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF=""
REMOTE_LIRCMD_CONF="



bnl at ibm:/etc/lirc$ ls /dev/lir*
/dev/lirc0  /dev/lircd
bnl at ibm:/etc/lirc$ ls -la /dev/lir*
crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 2010-06-02 20:04 /dev/lirc0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 2010-06-13 13:10 /dev/lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd
bnl at ibm:/etc/lirc$ ls -la /var/run/lirc/lircd
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2010-06-13 13:10 /var/run/lirc/lircd

^C
bnl at ibm:/etc/lirc$ ps -ef | grep lir
root       981     1  0 13:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lircd
--output=/var/run/lirc/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0


/var/log/messages does not give me any hints, nor does
/var/log/daemon.log


bnl at ibm:/etc/lirc$ tail /var/log/daemon.log
Jun 13 13:40:34 ibm lircd-0.8.6[981]: removed client
Jun 13 13:40:45 ibm lircd-0.8.6[981]: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Jun 13 13:40:57 ibm lircd-0.8.6[981]: removed client
Jun 13 13:41:08 ibm lircd-0.8.6[981]: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Jun 13 13:41:16 ibm lircd-0.8.6[981]: removed client


Any pointers to how to continue.
Or can someone post a working hardware.conf, using a serial receiver
on some kind of ubuntu?

--
/Björn