[mythtv-users] Need help with multiple lirc devices, IR transmitter

[Joe Auty]

Nick,

Thanks so much for your help! It appears to be working now...

The problem this last time was that I should have been doing:

irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE dish 1

rather than:

irsend --device=/dev/lirc1 SEND_ONCE dish 1



I have a little work to do in mapping some remote control keys, but the
basic IR blasting mechanism is now working!

Thanks again and again!


Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 05/10/2007, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the serial IR blaster from http://irblaster.info and I'm trying
>> to get it working on my Ubuntu MythTV setup.
>>
>> I have the Hauppauge 250 card, and I do have the IR receiver and
>> Hauppauge remote working there. I was told that in order to use my IR
>> blaster, I would need to setup lircd to listen on a second device,
>> /etc/lirc1. I'm having problems doing so, though. Ultimately, my error
>> message is as follows:
>>
>>> $ irsend --device=/dev/lirc1 SEND_ONCE dish 1
>>> irsend: could not connect to socket
>>> irsend: Permission denied
> 
> Joe,
> 
> (also posted to mythtv-users)
> 
> As I said in the previous thread on the mythtv-users list, you want to
> call irsend with the LIRC socket (/dev/lircd1 in your case with a
> second instance of lircd):
> 
> $ irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE dish 1
> 
> As I also said, you need to ensure that the user running irsend has
> write privileges to the lircd socket being used. Please post the
> output of:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/lirc*
> 
>> I did have to startup the second one manually, my lirc init.d script
>> doesn't seem to be starting up the second lirc daemon, but I'm assuming
>> that this isn't contributing to my problem here.
> 
> Please post your init script. Maybe there something in it causing the
> failure of the second instance.
> 


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Joe Auty
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