[mythtv-users] Joy and pain (Daryl McDonald)

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 00:37:03 UTC 2014


Hoi Daryl,

Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1:29:19 AM, you wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hoi Daryl,
>>>
>>> Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1:18:27 AM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>> not
>>>>>> irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial irsend SEND_ONCE DCT700 21
>>>>> but
>>>>>   irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial SEND_ONCE DCT700 21
>>>>>
>>>>> Tot mails,
>>>>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>>>
>>>>> De lerende Mens
>>>>> --
>>>>>
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>>>> This is with the card out:
>>>
>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ /usr/local/bin/check_stb
>>>> irsend: could not connect to socket
>>>> irsend: No such file or directory
>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial SEND_ONCE DCT700 21
>>>> irsend: could not connect to socket
>>>> irsend: No such file or directory
>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
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>>>
>>> Is lirc configured at the moment and does /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial
>>> exist?
>>>
>>> Tot mails,
>>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>
>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>
>>> De lerende Mens
>>> --
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>>
>> At the moment /var/run/lirc has only two files, lircd.pid and lircSerial
>>
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /dev/lirc*
>> crw------- 1 root root 250, 0 Feb 15 19:14 /dev/lirc0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 Feb 15 19:14 /dev/lircd ->
>> /var/run/lirc/lircSerial
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 Feb 15 19:14 /dev/lircSerial -> lirc0
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

> This is the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf:

> REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF=""
> REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

> #Chosen IR Transmitter
> TRANSMITTER="Serial Port (UART) : Motorola Cable box"
> TRANSMITTER_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_serial"
> TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
> TRANSMITTER_DEVICE="/dev/lircSerial"
> TRANSMITTER_SOCKET="/var/run/lirc/lircSerial"
> TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF="motorola/dctxxxx.conf"
> TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""

> #Enable lircd
> START_LIRCD="true"

> #Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
> #START_LIRCMD="false"

> #Try to load appropriate kernel modules
> LOAD_MODULES="true"

> # Default configuration files for your hardware if any
> LIRCMD_CONF=""

> #Forcing noninteractive reconfiguration
> #If lirc is to be reconfigured by an external application
> #that doesn't have a debconf frontend available, the noninteractive
> #frontend can be invoked and set to parse REMOTE and TRANSMITTER
> #It will then populate all other variables without any user input
> #If you would like to configure lirc via standard methods, be sure
> #to leave this set to "false"
> FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"
> START_LIRCMD=""
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Ok lets start at the beginning with the old configuration in
/etc/lirc/hardware.conf. So with
> TRANSMITTER_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0l"
> TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
or better configure it anew with mcc.
If that works: change to using /dev/lircSerial
If that works: change to using /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial

But then I see a typo:
> TRANSMITTER_SOCKET="/var/run/lirc/lircSerial"
should be:
> TRANSMITTER_SOCKET="/var/run/lirc/lircdSerial"
With the d


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens
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