[mythtv-users] CommandIR III & fedora

[Jarod Wilson]

On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Mike Bennett wrote:

> On 04/02/2011 09:23 AM, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
>> On 04/02/2011 07:39 AM, Mike Bennett wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 04/01/2011 08:57 PM, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
>>>> On 04/01/2011 07:36 PM, Mike Bennett wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone have the new commandIR III working with fedora 13, 14 or
>>>>> hopefully mythdora 12?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have been working with the Matthew at commandIR but he has not
>>>>> responded in a couple of days but I'm looking to see if anyone had had
>>>>> better luck. It requires LIRC 0.8.7 or higher and when I compile with
>>>>> the latest 0.9.0 it appears that the driver loads but then I run mode2
>>>>> it I get these errors:
>>>>> mode2: CommandIR driver initialized
>>>>> mode2: Child Initializing CommandIR hardware
>>>>> mode2: No CommandIRs found
>>>> 
>>>> I have one that I am using only for IR blasting on my back end.
>>>> 
>>>> I plugged it in and it worked under fedora 14. I didn't have to compile
>>>> LIRC.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> What version of LIRC are you running? Also are you sure it is the
>>> commandir III and not the commandir II?
>> 
>> Yes, it is the commandir III mini.  I just bought it in January of 
>> this year.
>> 
>> I am running the current LIRC from fedora: lirc-libs-0.8.7-1.fc14.x86_64
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
> Thanks Michael, I saw the version of LIRC was 0.8.7 for 14 which is why 
> it works. I think my unit is bad since it is not showing up in the lsusb 
> list. Thanks.

I believe there was at least one small CommandIR III-related fix that went into
lirc after 0.8.7 was released, but if you're not even seeing the device on the
bus, it probably doesn't matter. :)

(lirc 0.9.0 is in fedora 14 updates-testing right now, fwiw)

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com