On 3/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Tidmore</b> <<a href="mailto:jtidmore@gmail.com">jtidmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">I'm trying to get my IR Blaster working. I have only 1 serial port and that has the IR Receiver on it and that works fine. So I bought a USB to Serial converter for the IR Blaster. I can't seem to get lirc when compiling to use the /dev/ttyUSB0 device the USB to Serial converter creates when I plug it in. I've been following the instructions on
<a href="http://www.iwamble.net/IRBlaster_Howto.txt" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.iwamble.net/IRBlaster_Howto.txt</a> but they assume you have to available serial ports. Anyone know how I can compile my second instance of lirc to use /dev/ttyUSB0?
</div></blockquote><div><br>I think you'll find that it won't work. The typical IR blaster (and IR receiver) depend on controlling the low-level behavior of the serial port, and USB serial adapters don't work that way. A better bet would be to attach a serial IR Transmitter/Receiver to your single serial port. There's a circuit on
<a href="http://www.lirc.org">http://www.lirc.org</a>.<br><br>Carl Fongheiser<br></div><br></div><br>