[mythtv-users] Diskless Mythbuntu serial lirc

Martin Bene Martin.Bene at icomedias.com
Fri Aug 7 07:03:20 UTC 2009


Hi,


> i have a homebrew serial ir receiver.  I am having a hard time getting my 
> reciever to work in ubuntu.  fedora was a snap but ubuntu not so.  
> I have yet to find some clear instructions on how to do this.  wiki was really 
> messy and wasnt matching my files.  maybe old version.
	
> so, can someone give me some help, plz. 
	 
> here is some more info:
> mitchell at 0013d477b961:~$ sudo lircd -n       
> lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: lircd(default) ready
> lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
> lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: default_init(): No such file or directory
> lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: Failed to initialize hardware
	
> ~dmesg~
> [   18.481525] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
> [   23.263673] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61 
> [   23.796053] lirc_serial: auto-detected active low receiver
> [   23.796062] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0 

I'm running a serial receiver in one of my mythbuntu frontends:

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf excerpt 
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Hauppauge Gray (comes with DVB-s card)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_serial"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="hauppauge/lircd.conf.hauppauge"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
 
#Enable lircd
START_LIRCD="true"
 
#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
LOAD_MODULES="true"

Your sample seems to look for the hardware on /dev/lirc while the modules provide /dev/lirc0 

Bye, Martin


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