[mythtv-users] Centos Lirc mceusb blaster issue

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 19:14:11 UTC 2010


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Chris Tepe <cstepe at ctdataservices.com> wrote:
>  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
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>
> 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?
>

Hmmm - I may have spoke too soon..  The Topseeds I use (idVendor
    0x1784 TopSeed Technology Corp.
  idProduct          0x0008 eHome Infrared Transceiver) had to have
the latest changes.  There are other revisions of Topseeds that do not
require the same changes and just work out of the box.  I would assume
you have those if they work in mythdora (with < 0.8.7-cvs lirc)
without change..

Not sure what to tell you from here..


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