[mythtv-users] LIRC help

[Andy Long]

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Long" <aslong at uark.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] LIRC help


> Followed Jarod's guide to setup LIRC.  Everything seems to be fine, the
> service gives me an "OK" when I start it.  When I run /usr/bin/irw though,
> it doesn't do anything, just drops me back to another command input line.
> When I run it again, I get a "connection refused message.  By this point,
> the lircd service has crashed.  Anyone know what the issue here might be?
> I'm using the IR receiver that comes with my PVR-250.   This was installed
> according to Jarod's guide using apt-get.
>
> Here's what I'm seeing
>
> root at localhost mythtv]# /sbin/service lircd start
> Starting infrared remote control daemon:                   [  OK  ]
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /usr/bin/irw
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /usr/bin/irw
> connect: Connection refused
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /sbin/service lircd stop
> Stopping infrared remote control daemon:                   [FAILED]
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /sbin/service lircd start
> Starting infrared remote control daemon:                   [  OK  ]
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /usr/bin/irw
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /usr/bin/irw
> connect: Connection refused
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /usr/bin/irw
> connect: Connection refused
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /sbin/service lircd start
> Starting infrared remote control daemon:                   [  OK  ]
>
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In digging further, I found this in /var/log/messages   It happens this way
anytime I launch the lircd service and then attempt to start /usr/bin/irw.
Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?

Aug 13 08:37:24 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: lircd(any) ready
Aug 13 08:37:24 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded
Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: accepted new client on
/dev/lircd
Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: could not open /dev/lirc
Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: default_init(): No such
device
Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: caught signal