[mythtv-users] IR Microcontroller -> LIRC Stack

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Anthony Giggins
<seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
> On 03/08/2010, at 1:44 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Calvin Harrigan
> <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>> Sorry about that, it's connected via usb, though through an ftdi chip, so
>> it shows up as a plain serial port on the host.
>> I've been browsing the lirc mailing list, but no luck finding anything
>> that would explain what exactly is going on in LIRC.
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> I think you need a driver. LIRC is set up to do the decoding itself. You
> might be able to crib some of it from the driver for the IRMAN and similar,
> they decode and pass decoded values to LIRC.
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> If it displays as a serial port would Lirc_serial be able to interpret it?

Not even close. Christoph has given suggestions over on the lirc list.
Basically, a userspace driver similar to irman, uirt2, ftdi, etc., is
what was suggested, and is kind of what I figured.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com