[mythtv-users] Disable TurboSight IR driver ?

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Wed Jun 10 00:27:24 UTC 2015


> Hoi Robin,
>
> Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 12:43:02 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Gosh - what a game!!
>
>> The latest problem is that the turbosight drivers for their PCIe DVB
>> cards
>> include an IR receiver driver. This is great until, like me, you want to
>> use an IR blaster - in this case a trusty old mceusb device.
>
>> At powerup, there is a race as to which /dev/lircX device gets allocated
>> to what such that the wrong choice in the lircd setup means no blaster.
>
>> Does anyone know of a way to turn off the IR drivers from TBS and just
>> have the one - that way I'll be certain I'm trying to send to the
>> correct
>> device.
>
>> Cheers
>
> Most of the time the same module is managing both ir and dvb, so that
> is tricky. You can however use udev to create a consistent name for
> your blaster. If you give the output of:
> udevadm info --attribute-walk path --name=/dev/lirc?
> I can give you an idea for a rule.

This is the info for just the mceusb device, I don't have the tbs enabled
kernel loaded at the moment (will have later today).

Many thanks

-- 
Robin Gilks

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