[mythtv-users] IR Blaster on USB to Serial Converter

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Fri Mar 17 21:41:55 UTC 2006


Jonathan Tidmore wrote:
> 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 http://www.iwamble.net/IRBlaster_Howto.txt but they 
> assume you have to available serial ports.  Anyone know how I can 
> compile my second instance of lirc to use /dev/ttyUSB0?

I'm not sure that's possible. I think lirc's serial code requires an 
IRQ, which those USB->serial adapters don't have. I tried something 
similar a few months ago, but stopped when I read that.

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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net



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