[mythtv-users] LIRC help

Travis Kelley rhatguy at comcast.net
Fri Aug 13 19:16:32 EDT 2004


I think your having issues with one of two things:

1.  your kernel modules may not be loaded correctly.  Try typing lsmod
at the prompt after you start lircd for the first time.

2.  Your lircd is not looking at the right device in /dev.  For instance
my remote (pvr-350) is found at /dev/lirc/0.  Try this:
cd /dev
find . | grep lirc
poke around inside dev for a bit and see if you can figure out where the
remote actually lives then start up lircd manually like this
lircd -d /dev/lirc/0  (thats the line I use)

Hope this helps.

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:57, Andy Long wrote:
> ---- 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
> 
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