[mythtv-users] Help Setting up serial IR blaster for Comcast/Pace DC50X

[Brad Fuller]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Burgess <aab at cichlid.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 13:17 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Andrew Burgess <aab at cichlid.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> do you need to tell the module what your hardware is or how it works?
>> >>
>> >> modinfo lirc_serial
>> >> filename:
>> >> /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/input/lirc/lirc_serial.ko
>> >> license:        GPL
>> >> author:         Ralph Metzler, Trent Piepho, Ben Pfaff, Christoph
>> >> Bartelmus, Andrei Tanas
>> >> description:    Infra-red receiver driver for serial ports.
>> >> srcversion:     6E4F26F7AF9FF3A5328BE75
>> >> depends:        lirc_dev
>> >> vermagic:       2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
>> >> parm:           type:Hardware type (0 = home-brew, 1 = IRdeo, 2 = IRdeo
>> >> Remote, 3 = AnimaX, 4 = IgorPlug) (int)
>> >> parm:           io:I/O address base (0x3f8 or 0x2f8) (int)
>> >> parm:           irq:Interrupt (4 or 3) (int)
>> >> parm:           share_irq:Share interrupts (0 = off, 1 = on) (bool)
>> >> parm:           sense:Override autodetection of IR receiver circuit (0 =
>> >> active high, 1 = active low ) (bool)
>> >> parm:           txsense:Sense of transmitter circuit (0 = active high, 1
>> >> = active low ) (bool)
>> >> parm:           softcarrier:Software carrier (0 = off, 1 = on) (bool)
>> >> parm:           debug:Enable debugging messages (bool)
>> >>
>> I meant "is there something special i needs to send the driver" (of course)
>>
>> I did try to make sure the io: was set to the correct address base.
>> Made no difference
>
> maybe debug=1 will tell you something
>
> was your original problem that it thought receive didn't exist?
> If so maybe sense= will change things

thanks for the reply, Andrew. My original problem was that the IR
xmiter didn't flash when I used irsend. Then, Mike Perkins pointed out
I should used lirc_serial not lirc_sir. So, now I rcv the current
error msg I reported earlier:

$ irsend SEND_ONCE DC50X enter
irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE DC50X enter
irsend: hardware does not support sending


> or run through all the type= possibilities and see if you can get closer

will do

(BTW: I knew an Andrew Burgess at Atari, you aren't one and the same, are you?)

-- 
Brad Fuller