[mythtv-users] Multiple HD-PVR Blasters

[Jon Heizer]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Jon,
>
> Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 5:59:07 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Hey,
>
>
>
> > I have 2 HD-PVRs and yesterday decided to move the one that has
> > been on slave backend to my master backend that has a HD-PVR
> > already.  I can get everything to work but can only seem to get one
> > blaster to work at a time.  I end up with.
> >
> > [  377.424068] lirc_zilog: i2c_master_send failed with -5
> > [  377.424084] lirc_zilog: sending to the IR transmitter chip failed,
> trying reset
> > [  378.082019] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR blaster firmware version
> 2.1.0 loaded
> >
> > Has anyone ran into this or have a successful 2 blaster setup they can
> share?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Jon
>
> Basically you have to run two separate instances of lircd under a
> different name. So you have to copy your lircd configuration and start
> script to for instance lircd1 and adjust this configuration to the
> second blaster.
> Do you get two lirc instances in /dev/ or /dev/input ?
>
>
I do get 2 /dev/lirc instances.

I've tried to have 2 individual /dev/lircd and to use the listen/connect to
connect a second lirc a single /dev/lircd

Would it be possible to share your startup scripts?  I must be doing
something dumb.

Jon
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