Lirc vs Maverick Meerkat 10.04

**tzoom84** · November 9th, 2010

Hey first I just wanted to thank all of you for making the initial install process so seamless. I was able to run through all the commands listed in Ghosty.be's posts. But when I try to call "irsend" to my blaster, I get an error:
"irsend: transmission failed"

I tried all variants of calling irsend:

Code:

sudo irsend SEND_ONCE hauppauge_pvr150 POWER
sudo irsend SEND_START hauppauge_pvr150 POWER
sudo irsend --device=/dev/lirc0 SEND_ONCE hauppauge_pvr150 POWER
sudo irsend --device=/dev/lirc1 SEND_ONCE hauppauge_pvr150 POWER

I'm using a PVR-150 with the silver remote.

A "dmesg | grep lirc" indicates I may have problems with my lircd.conf. Which lircd.conf do you all use for your PVR-150?

(Note: I first was using the default which pointed to /usr/share/lirc/extras/more_remotes/hauppauge/lircd.conf.hauppauge. But when that didn't work, I tried one found at http://www.pjd.nu/lirc/lircd_pvr150.conf

Thanks!

**tunzo** · November 9th, 2010

Hi tzoom. Its been a few weeks since i have messed with anything Myth - ive been working on some other things. If memory serves me, though, i think I followed the MythTV HDPVR Wiki for setting up hardware.conf and lircd.conf. If you look near the bottom of the page, you will see some instructions.

my (loose) understanding of those files is that hardware.conf lets you attach names to your /dev/lirc's tells what drivers they use, etc. lircd.conf defines how those devices behave - it defines what signals are sent with what commands.

It is obviously important to make sure that your name of your sending device matches the name of one of the devices defined in lircd.conf. i know i got tripped up with the names of things when i was trying to configure it.

also, whenever you make changes to hardware.conf or lircd.conf, i believe you need to restart the lirc dameon:

sudo /etc/init.d/lircd restart

also, while i don't think this should make a difference, i never needed to use sudo to use irsend. sorry i can't be of more help. my understanding of all of this is not very extensive. hopefully if i am leading you astray, someone will correct me.

**tomj.runner** · December 25th, 2010

Hi all,

I followed everything in this thread or checked in various others, still no success in making the IR blaster work.
I'm using Marverick 10.10 with a Hauppauge HD-PVR on a Zotac ION computer

So I followed Ghosty.be waltkthrough without issue. Then*

First difference
lsmod | grep lirc returns
lirc_zilog 15952 0
lirc_dev 12140 1 lirc_zilog

nothing related lot lirc_i2c, which will appear only if I do sudo modprobe lirc_i2c.

Second difference and I fear the issue might be coming from here
ls /dev/lirc* returns /dev/lircd only.
no /dev/lirc0 or /dev/lirc1 (which means no device loading no ?)

dmesg |grep lirc
[ 13.656876] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[ 13.664780] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR driver initializing
[ 13.669597] lirc_zilog: initialization complete
So no issue on the driver loading.

sudo irsend LIST "" "" returns
irsend: Hauppauge
irsend: hauppauge_pvr
irsend: Hauppauge_350
irsend: Hauppauge_WinTV_Nexus-S
irsend: Hauppauge
irsend: Hauppauge_MVP

The Hauppauge works well, with compiled drivers coming from V4L (linuxtv.org).

But it seems nothing is send to the blaster (no blinking light)
irsend SEND_ONCE Hauppauge 0_1_KEY_POWER
irsend SEND_ONCE Hauppauge_MVP 0_1_KEY_POWER
irsend SEND_ONCE hauppauge_pvr 0_1_KEY_POWER
returns #unknown command"

sudo irsend SEND_ONCE hauppauge_pvr POWER returns nothing.

Any idea of what might be wrong ?

**bml137** · January 22nd, 2011

You need to patch the 'hdpvr' kernel module for the 'lirc_zilog' kernel module to recognize the HDPVR IR receiver and/or transmitter.

**Chewiesw** · April 3rd, 2011

Ok, I am in the final stages of installing a new 10.10 box and I have left the lirc config for last as it seems it is the most irritating component. Maybe I should have tackled it first ! I have driver issue that I am not sure how to solve. I have tried to follow this thread and other but I still can’t get the remote or blaster to work

Code:

andrew@DVRBOX:~$  ls /dev/lirc*
/dev/lircd
andrew@DVRBOX:~$ lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_zilog             13704  0 
lirc_mceusb            13068  0 
lirc_dev                9510  2 lirc_zilog,lirc_mceusb
andrew@DVRBOX:~$

Hardware.conf

Code:

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
#Chosen Remote Control
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Chosen IR Transmitter
TRANSMITTER="Microsoft Windows Media Center V2 (usb) : Direct TV Receiver"
TRANSMITTER_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF="directtv/general.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=""

**Dave M G** · May 9th, 2011

Has the system changed in 11.04?

I followed the instructions and everything seemed to go fine until the very last step, when I got this error:

Code:

$ sudo modprobe lirc_zilog
FATAL: Error inserting lirc_zilog (/lib/modules/2.6.38-9-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_zilog.ko): Invalid argument

Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks for any advice.

**Kheops_74** · May 10th, 2011

Do you tried removed the lirc-modules-source package, and then deleted /usr/src/lirc

After you can start the procedure again described in this tread.

**Dave M G** · May 10th, 2011

I think things have changed.

Something wasn't going right when downloading lirc-modules source, so I went into Synaptic to check it, and it said:

Code:

This package can be safely removed as the in-kernel modules supercede it.

So I ran an update, rebooted, and my remote works!

Could it be that the lirc drivers are now built in so all this crazy configuration is not needed anymore?

**bsntech** · June 21st, 2011

Originally Posted by Dave M G

I think things have changed.

Something wasn't going right when downloading lirc-modules source, so I went into Synaptic to check it, and it said:

Code:

This package can be safely removed as the in-kernel modules supercede it.

So I ran an update, rebooted, and my remote works!

Could it be that the lirc drivers are now built in so all this crazy configuration is not needed anymore?

A bit of an old threat here, but I believe you are on to something. Anytime I did an upgrade of a release or kernel, I had to re-patch the lirc-modules-source and the run a reconfigure on it.

Now with LIRC 0.8.7 and 11.04 installed, the Hauppauge HVR 1600 remote I have works just fine. I upgraded to 11.04 and then simply ran 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source' and all is well.

In the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file, my line looks like this:

REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_zilog"

Working just fine. Nice to see that the lirc_zilog appears to be working fine in the lirc-modules-source.

Brian S.
Small Business Website Design

**IndieRockSteve** · December 6th, 2011

has anyone tried this on 10.04 lately? the patch doesn't apply cleanly any more and I can't find the linked to version of the lirc_zilog.c file by Ghosty.be.