[mythtv-users] ATI Remote Wonder and pvr150 lirc

[Gregg]

Thank you for the reply that sheds some light on it.   To answer your
question. Yes I only want to use the pvr150 for the blaster
capability.  I am trying to enable the ATI remote wonder plus because
it is RF instead of IR.  I black listed ati_remote per the wiki and I
see the module for both lirc_i2c and lirc_atiusb. under /dev I have
lirc  lirc0  lirc1  lircd listed now.  I stopped Lircd and irrecord
--device=lirc1 greyhp.conf works for the hauppage, but when I try
irrecord --device=/dev/lirc0  ati.conf and try to program it says
"irrecord: gap not found, can't continue"

If I restart lircd and run $irw then i get a prompt but no response
from either remote.  i assume it is using /dev/lirc by default.  If I
type irw /dev/lirc0 or /dev/lirc1 I get connection refused.  Any
ideas???

-Gregg


> You should be able to use them both together, if they are configured
> correctly. Are you using the PVR-150 card for the IR blaster? If you
> are just using the IR receivers, why do you need them both working?
>
> > Do I have to compile lirc mannually for the ATI to work with mythtv?
>
> You may (or more likely may not) need compile to get the two devices
> working. Compiling to get them working in MythTV is irrelevant - you
> need to get them working on your system. MythTV can only use what is
> alredy working - this applies to all hardware such as video cards,
> capture cards, soundcards, remotes controls, etc, etc.
>
> > I ask this because for some reason when I run irrecord I get an error
> > asking if lirc is running, when irw works.
>
> lircd *should not* be running when starting irrecord. lircd *must* be
> running when starting irw.
>
> To get both IR devices working at the same time, you may well need to
> run two lircd instances - like /dev/lircd and /dev/lircd1 - with each
> lircd socket talking to one of the devices. As you will be using two
> different LIRC kernel moduels you should not need to recompile LIRC as
> modprobing the two different kernel modules for the ATI and Hauppauge
> devices should suffice.
>
> The typical requirement of recompiling a second installation of LIRC
> comes when a user wants to run two separate devices using the same
> kernel module. This scenario is common when running a serial IR
> receiver and a serial IR transmitter on different serial ports.
>
> --
> Nick
>