[mythtv-users] Multiple HD-PVR Blasters

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jon,

Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 7:25:29 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi Jon,
>  

>  Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 5:59:07 PM, you wrote:
>  
 >> Hey,
>  
>  
>  
 >> I have 2 HD-PVRs and yesterday decided to move the one that has
 >> been on slave backend to my master backend that has a HD-PVR
 >> already.  I can get everything to work but can only seem to get one
 >> blaster to work at a time.  I end up with.
 >>
 >> [  377.424068] lirc_zilog: i2c_master_send failed with -5
 >> [  377.424084] lirc_zilog: sending to the IR transmitter chip failed, trying reset
 >> [  378.082019] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR blaster firmware version 2.1.0 loaded
 >>
 >> Has anyone ran into this or have a successful 2 blaster setup they can share?
>  
 >> Thanks,
>  
 >> Jon
>  
>  

> Basically you have to run two separate instances of lircd under a
>  different name. So you have to copy your lircd configuration and start
>  script to for instance lircd1 and adjust this configuration to the
>  second blaster.
>  Do you get two lirc instances in /dev/ or /dev/input ?

> I do get 2 /dev/lirc instances.

> I've tried to have 2 individual /dev/lircd and to use the
> listen/connect to connect a second lirc a single /dev/lircd  
>   
> Would it be possible to share your startup scripts?  I must be doing something dumb.

> Jon

If you post your current two lircd scripts/configurations, I can look
at it. Also on the wiki you can find examples for udev rules. For you
also might want to distinguish the rest of the two cards.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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