[mythtv-users] Anybody get the replacement for the lirc_zilog driver working in newer kernels?

[James Purl]

I *just* saw a thread from 2019 asking the same thing that I somehow
missed. I could've just pinged that thread, but here we are - apologies for
the new thread (and if I missed any others).

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 11:07 AM James Purl <jamesp at mzrfzr.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> tl;dr - Is anyone successfully using the ir-kbd-i2c driver to do HD-PVR IR
> blasting? If yes, what kernel and OS?
>
> Long form:
> I upgraded my Mythbuntu 16.04 LTS systems a few months back (in order to
> get to v31 and other unrelated reasons).  I knew that lirc in 18.04+ had
> changed due to new lirc packages (based on the discussions here), so I was
> bracing myself for that.  But, I hadn't seen any reports specifically
> regarding the lirc_zilog driver post 2018.  In my case, I found I couldn't
> get it working--I transmit only.  I currently have Ubuntu 18.04 with the
> highest 4.13* kernel that still had a working lirc_zilog (there was a batch
> of kernels where lirc_zilog stopped working properly as well
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531927>).
>
> Stuff I found
> <https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c?id=acaa34bf06e963f0b9481a3c16bfd6867e2369a0>
> indicates lirc_zilog was to be replaced by ir-kbd-i2c, but at the time that
> didn't work (for transmit anyways) for the HD-PVR in the standard 18.04
> kernels for me. I don't know if the default kernel in 20.04 worked with
> ir-kbd-i2c as I was still on v30 at the time I did the OS upgrade and
> couldn't go to 20.04 without also going to v31.  I know terms like "not
> worked" / "didn't work" aren't that useful, but I remember in some cases I
> got something like "hardware does not support sending", in other cases it
> appeared successful, but there were no IR signals sent. Mostly I'm seeing
> if the new driver works for anyone else. And while I can do web searches,
> this audience is a good pool of folks that may have the answer 😁
>
> So, is anyone successfully using the ir-kbd-i2c driver to do HD-PVR
> blasting?
>
> Thanks!
> --
>
> James Purl - *jamesp at mzrfzr.com <jamesp at mzrfzr.com>*
>
>

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James Purl - *jamesp at mzrfzr.com <jamesp at mzrfzr.com>*
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