<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Hika van den Hoven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hoi Hika,<br>
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 8:47:19 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> Hoi Jon,<br>
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> Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 8:16:43 PM, you wrote:<br>
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>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Hika van den Hoven <<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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>> Hoi Jon,<br>
>><br>
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>> Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 7:25:29 PM, you wrote:<br>
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>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Hika van den Hoven <<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hoi Jon,<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>>> Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 5:59:07 PM, you wrote:<br>
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>>>> Hey,<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>> I have 2 HD-PVRs and yesterday decided to move the one that has<br>
>>>> been on slave backend to my master backend that has a HD-PVR<br>
>>>> already. I can get everything to work but can only seem to get one<br>
>>>> blaster to work at a time. I end up with.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> [ 377.424068] lirc_zilog: i2c_master_send failed with -5<br>
>>>> [ 377.424084] lirc_zilog: sending to the IR transmitter chip failed, trying reset<br>
>>>> [ 378.082019] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR blaster firmware version 2.1.0 loaded<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Has anyone ran into this or have a successful 2 blaster setup they can share?<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Thanks,<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Jon<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>>> Basically you have to run two separate instances of lircd under a<br>
>>> different name. So you have to copy your lircd configuration and start<br>
>>> script to for instance lircd1 and adjust this configuration to the<br>
>>> second blaster.<br>
>>> Do you get two lirc instances in /dev/ or /dev/input ?<br>
>><br>
>>> I do get 2 /dev/lirc instances.<br>
>><br>
>>> I've tried to have 2 individual /dev/lircd and to use the<br>
>>> listen/connect to connect a second lirc a single /dev/lircd <br>
>>><br>
>>> Would it be possible to share your startup scripts? I must be doing something dumb.<br>
>><br>
>>> Jon<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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>> If you post your current two lircd scripts/configurations, I can look<br>
>> at it. Also on the wiki you can find examples for udev rules. For you<br>
>> also might want to distinguish the rest of the two cards.<br>
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>> I was using a udev already for the single one and have the second added.<br>
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>> For the most basic version running from the cli.<br>
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>> lircd --output=/dev/lircd --device=/dev/hdpvr_ir -P<br>
>> /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid /etc/lirc/lircd.conf<br>
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>> lircd --output=/dev/lircd2 --device=/dev/hdpvr2_ir -P<br>
>> /var/run/lirc/lircd2.pid /etc/lirc2/lircd.conf<br>
>><br>
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>> With the lircd.confs linking to a blaster and a blaster2 setting defined.<br>
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>> $ irsend -d /dev/lircd SEND_ONCE blaster select<br>
>> $ irsend -d /dev/lircd2 SEND_ONCE blaster2 select<br>
>><br>
>> Sometimes the blaster 2 will work a time or two but it eventually<br>
>> fails. I'm not sure it having on going recordings effects it or not.<br>
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>> Has anyone had issues with a "failing" power adapter and the<br>
>> blaster maybe? I can leave it recording for a long time no problem.<br>
>> I had not used this hdpvr in a while.<br>
>><br>
>> Jon<br>
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> Does look OK.<br>
> Am I right that the blasters use the lirc-serial driver. If so do they<br>
> have a different IRQ and PORT?<br>
> What are your modprobe settings?<br>
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</div></div>And if so, do you have a serial port on your MB that can conflict?<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They use the Zilog driver. </div><div><br></div><div>modprobe option to disable the receiver on the device as it can cause issues.</div><div>
<div>options lirc_zilog tx_only=1</div></div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div></div></div></div>