[mythtv-users] Re: irman

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:26, Joe Votour wrote:
> David,
>
> I'm CC'ing the MythTV-users list because you're not
> the first to ask me how to setup an irman with MythTV.
>  I couldn't seem to find this information in the
> archives (or if it was there, I missed it).
>
> I don't use my irman anymore because setting it up
> requires recompiling a couple of packages.  It's not
> difficult, but very time consuming, and it's such a
> waste since my PVR-250 and PVR-350 have an IR receiver
> that works with my universal remote.
>
> That said, here's how I went about getting it to work.
>  This was a few months ago (at least), so things may
> have changed now.
>
> 1. Download and compile libirman.  Back when I was
> doing this, the lirc team didn't have the correct
> version (lirc wanted 0.4.2, but they only had 0.4.1 on
> their page) - I had to find it externally.  It now
> looks like they might have the right version in their
> downloads section.
> 2. After building libirman, you need to compile lirc,
> and enable irman support.  If you follow the lirc
> compilation instructions, you should be able to
> navigate through the ncurses-based setup and select
> the irman as the device.
> 3. Now you need your configuration file.  I wasn't
> able to get the lirc recording tool to work reliably,
> so I used a tool within libirman to generate a config
> file, then used a tool called irman2lirc, included
> with lirc (in the contrib directory).
>
> That done, it worked fairly well, although now that I
> have my universal remote working with my Hauppauge
> cards, I don't bother with the irman anymore.
>
> The documentation for libirman can give you better
> details than I can off the top of my head.

Just FYI, Axel Thimm was working on a LIRC rpm that included IRman 
support.  Don't recall where we left off with that...

As far as generating the config goes, I'm able to use 'irrecord' just 
find with mine.

-JAC