[mythtv-users] Multiple LIRC Devices Causing Problems with HD-PVR Blaster on F14

[John Welch]

Hello all,

I have been having ongoing issues with the IR Blaster on my HD-PVR
being used for channel changing on my Fedora 14 MythTV back-end
system.  I finally had a chance to do some troubleshooting today and
discovered that somewhere along the way my system switched things
around and is now assigning the first lirc device (/dev/lirc0) to my
pcHD3000 (module ir_lirc_codec) and the second lirc device
(/dev/lirc1) to the HD-PVR (module lirc_zilog).  Previously this had
consistently been the other way around, and I never had to do anything
to force the order.  I thought it might be as easy as updating my lirc
start-up configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/lirc) to point to
/dev/lirc1 instead of /dev/lirc0.  However, as of yet at least I have
not been able to make this work.

Right now the only way I can get the HD-PVR blaster to work is to stop
lirc, remove all the lirc modules, add the lirc_zilog back in
(modprobe lirc_zilog) and then restart lirc.  I guess I can script
this, but there seems like the *should* be a better way.  As I am not
using anything with lirc and the pcHD3000 I don't really care if this
module loads or what device it gets assigned.  All I want is for the
HD-PVR blaster to always be /dev/lirc0.  I think there should be a way
to force the order of the lirc devices or prevent the ir_lirc_codec
from loading, but I can't seem to figure it out.

I know this isn't a MythTV issue, but I figure someone must have a
similar configuration.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
John