[mythtv-users] IguanaIR configuration

[Alec Leamas]

On 02/09/15 15:40, George Nassas wrote:
> n Sep 1, 2015, at 1:10 AM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Debian/Ubuntu being stuck on 0.9.0 doesn't make things easier.
 >> This was released 2011, current release is 0.9.2 (0.9.3 will arrive 
in a week or so).
>
> I didn’t realize you’re the main lirc developer. Does the current version support
 > transmitting through the kernel driver? A while back I took a look 
and it seems
 > the kernel iguana driver has transmit code and advertises it in 
capability
 > inquiries but the lirc devinput driver in debian never asks if the 
device can
 > transmit. Progress there would let me get rid of the igdaemon and 
have fewer moving parts.

Neither 0.9.0 nor the current version supports transmitting using the 
devinput driver. After all, devinput works on top of the kernel input 
layer, and that certainly can't transmit.

To transmit you need to use the default driver which will expose a 
/dev/lirc device for any loaded iguanair kernel module. That is, as long 
as you don't blacklist iguanair a new /dev/lirc device will popup when 
you connect an IguanaUR usb device. More details in [1]

Many of the iguanaIR users are conservative and uses the igdaemon which 
is developed and maintained by the IguanaIR, Inc staff. However, as far 
as I know there are no basic issues with the kernel driver (fingers 
crosssed).

Cheers!

--alec


[1] http://lirc.sourceforge.net/lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html