Using PVR150 IR Blaster In Mythbuntu 9.10b

[TrevorBradley]

UPDATE: I've given up and went with a Phillips/Microsoft USBMCE remote. Works great without any tweaking.

[diskmaster23]

UPDATE: I've given up and went with a Phillips/Microsoft USBMCE remote. Works great without any tweaking.

I actually just stopped using 9.10 and stayed with 9.04.

[bloodqc]

UPDATE: I've given up and went with a Phillips/Microsoft USBMCE remote. Works great without any tweaking.

Does it come with a blaster? If so, do you know where I can get one?

[mrplow]

I updated the zilog.diff patch to work in 10.04, its just a copy of the old diff with the changes from Jarod's lirc kernel driver git tree, but with the includes from the old patch

sudo apt-get install lirc-modules-source
cd /usr/src/lirc-0.8.6/
sudo patch -p0 < ~/zilog.diff
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source

[Kheops_74]

I try your patch. i did the command + sudo modprobe lirc_zilog

Everything look good

lsmod |grep lirc
lirc_zilog 13245 0
lirc_i2c 5845 1
lirc_dev 8890 4 lirc_zilog,lirc_i2c

ls -l lirc*
crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 2010-05-02 10:43 lirc0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2010-05-02 10:43 lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-05-02 10:43 lircd1 -> /var/run/lirc/lircd1


I still have this error:

irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE blaster 1
irsend: hardware does not support sending

Do you know the problem? is it hardware.conf, lircd.conf or something else?

[mrplow]

...
I still have this error:

irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE blaster 1
irsend: hardware does not support sending

Do you know the problem? is it hardware.conf, lircd.conf or something else?

I could be your hardware.conf or lirc_zilog isn't working properly. Check which devices are created after you load lirc_zilog as well.

ls /dev/lirc*

If you load zilog with debug=1 what is your syslog output? Using the original patch I would get lirc_zilog: no device found messages.

tail -f /var/log/syslog

open a second terminal

sudo rmmod lirc_zilog
sudo modprobe lirc_zilog debug=1

relevant part of my hardware.conf

TRANSMITTER_MODULES="lirc_zilog"
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"

I only use lirc for blasting so I don't have lirc_i2c loaded

[Kheops_74]

Ok. i unload lirc_i2c (sudo rmmod lirc_i2c) and modify the hardware.conf to remove lirc_i2c. I rebooted and it seems to work.

What is the use of lirc_i2c?

Thanks MrPlow

[Kheops_74]

Lirc was updated tonight. Guess what, it doesn't work anymore I hate this soooo much.

I think the patch for lirc-zilog is not up to date for the new version. MrPlow, can you confirm???

When i did sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source i receive an error (bad something)

Thanks

[tim273]

Same here, something was updated and it no longer works for me either.

[mrplow]

ya mine broke yesturday as well, on my other machine as well which doesn't have zilog but that was a slightly different reason.

I had to remove the lirc source
sudo sudo apt-get install lirc-modules-source
sudo rm -rf /usr/src/lirc-0.8.6/

then reinstall it and apply the patch like before, the patch needed no changes