[mythtv-users] Centos Lirc mceusb blaster issue

[Chris Tepe]

  On 10/10/2010 2:01 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Chris Tepe<cstepe at ctdataservices.com>  wrote:
>>   I have my backend running Centos.  I'm trying to setup a mce transceiver
>> for controlling my 2 set top boxes.  But I can no seem to get it to work.
>>   if i run irw it will see the remote but issuing any irsend commands seem to
>> do nothing.  I do not get any errors and nothing is in the log files.  I
>> tested my hardware on a mythdora front end that had just an mce remote and
>> everything worked I verfied the emitter worked with a digital camera.  So
>> I'm left with a config issue on my backend.
>> Here is the info on my backend
>> [root at mythcentos ~]# uname -a
>> Linux mythcentos.tepehome.info 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Thu
>> Sep 30 19:27:35 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> [root at mythcentos ~]# rpm -qa | grep lirc
>> lirc-0.8.6-85_cvs20090909.el5
>> lirc-kmdl-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.centos.plus-0.8.6-85_cvs20090909.el5
>> lirc-devices-0.8-4.el5
>> liblirc_client0-0.8.6-85_cvs20090909.el5
>> [root at mythcentos ~]# lsmod | grep lirc
>> lirc_mceusb            20356  0
>> lirc_dev               16664  1 lirc_mceusb
>> [root at mythcentos ~]# dmesg | grep lirc
>> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
>> lirc_mceusb: Windows Media Center Edition USB IR Transceiver driver for LIRC
>> 1.90
>> lirc_mceusb: Daniel Melander<lirc at rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter
>> <martin_a_blatter at yahoo.com>, Dan Conti<dconti at acm.wwu.edu>
>> lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
>> lirc_mceusb[2]: Topseed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared Transceiver on
>> usb1:2
>> usbcore: registered new driver lirc_mceusb
>>
>> I've tried it in all the usb ports as well
>>
>> Chris
>>
> I have several of those topseeds.  You need 0.8.7-cvs for blasting to
> work with it.  Fedora probably already had that in, but centos does
> not (0.8.6)..  Not sure if an rhel repos may have later lirc or not,
> but you can compile it your self ad it will work.
>
> -Greg
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Here's the version from my Dora box
rpm -qa | grep lirc
lirc-0.8.6-7.fc12.i686
lirc-libs-0.8.6-7.fc12.i686
I have 8.6-85 on my centos box installed from ATRPMS testing.
I'm not familiar with using cvs versions.  any suggestions on how to do  
that?

Chris