[mythtv-users] Serial irblaster - how do I get lirc working

[David Knudsen]

Thank you for your reply.

It seems www.wilsonet.com/mythtv only deals with receiving
infrared signals, not sending them.  I've googled around and
managed to:

1) prevent the kernel from grabbing the serial port (setserial)
2) load the lirc_serial module

I'm unsure how to do the next bit:

3) set up another instance of lircd on Debian?

One instance is started at boot from /etc/init.d/lirc (provided 
by distribution package). Does anybody know of a way to 
configure that script for multiple instances?

If not I'll probably just do it manually - reboots are rare.  

What options do you use when running the second instance? 
 Do you have a separate lircd.conf for the second instance?


Thank you for your help!
-david knudsen



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Thom Paine
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:44 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Serial irblaster - how do I get 
> lirc working
> 
> I have mine controlling two Bell Expressvu systems. I have followed
> the instructions from www.wilsonet.com/mythtv with success. I am
> running FC6 though.
> 
> I would think the principals would be the same. Set up another
> instance of lirc and get it to blast the codes to your cablebox.
> You need a channelchange script based on the IR code you are using. I
> picked code 1 and code 6 since they were recommended and both of them
> work almost flawlessly. I have only noticed 1 case where the channel
> didn't change properly for my kids shows, and instead of tuning to 553
> (treehouse) it tuned 53 and recorded some french show.
> 
> -- 
> -=/>Thom
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