Lirc [howto]

dreadhead · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:05 am Post subject:

you can write the conf file on your own. First get sure the Ir receiver is recognized. load the right module (I don't know whitch one, you have to find out) and look for /dev/lirc/0. If you can find this file, cat it and press some keys on the remote. If you get any output you can begin setting up the lircd.conf.
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marco007 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 99

i tried emerge lirc with lirc_devices->irdeo_remote,inputlirc,irdeo ,inputlirc,irreal,imon,avermedia,kworld and flyvideo
and i get no signal

(cat dev/lirc/0)
tv-card http://www.pcdirectsource.com/Item.cfm?ID=1820
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sidious · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:33 am Post subject:

lirc won't work on my laptop (Acer Extensa 3001 WLMi)
I emerged lirc with sir modul, downloaded the config-file for my RC an saved it to /etc/lircd.conf

dmesg after modprobe lirc_sir

twipsta · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

I am getting the same problem, and have tried everything I can find online, gone thru countless HOWTO's (including the ones in gentoo-wiki) and have spent almost a whole week trying to nut this problem out.

I have 2 IR Receivers. One built from a kit I bought at the local Jaycar shop (KC5366, it's actually a Silicon Chip kit), and one I built as per http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html.
Both receivers work flawlessly in Windows (the kit receiver using Girder, the other using WinLirc)

I built the second one as I couldn't figure out how to get the kit receiver to work under lirc (It needs to be talked to @ 9600 baud) and yet still nothing.
So I booted up windows, chucked both receivers in and ran WinLirc. After selecting com2 I brought up the Raw Data window started pushing buttons and all of a sudden I'm overwhelmed with output. I even had both receivers working side by side (one with WinLirc, one with Girder) and started having remote wars with my flatmates (we where bored

)

Jump back into gentoo and again nothing.

'dmesg | grep lirc' gives me this:

twipsta · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Man I feel like a twat.

After a good nights sleep, I woke up, typed 'depmod -a' then ran xmode2 and voila! I had a signal!

I guess I forgot to run depmod last night :/

Got the depmod idea from http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/?partType=section&partName=lirc

So yer, sidious - See if that solves you're problem too.

Elvis-Gauss · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 73

You can try irrecord. It creates config files for your remote control whe you press its buttons. (If there isn't any config files on that website)
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twipsta · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Yeah irrecord works great .... once you have all the modules configured and loaded in the proper order. that and making sure the system realises there's a few new modules and devices to look out for.

See my problem was stupidity .... I did everything fine, except for running depmod afterwards. As soon as I executed that magical command my IR unit sprung to life (and then spent the next 10mins mucking around in xmode2 roflmao

)
Seeing as I had already got the unit up and running in Windows using WinLirc, I cheated and grabbed the remote control config file and chucked it in lirc.
Emerged the xmms lirc plugin, set it up and then spent the next 20mins or so freaking out me flat-mate as he watches my computer start doing things by itself. (Tho atm, I have more fun in Windows. Got a second remote for Windows with a few more buttons and set it up for basic mouse control, winamp functions and monitor standby. Try it on a PC newbie at a party one time, it's hillarious

)

Now if only i could be bothered figuring out a semi-easy way to set up monitor standby and maybe even a simple OSD. My life would be complete .... 'till the next project lol

gentunian · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

I surf all the web searching for a "how-to-lirc-with-creative-infra-cd". I found this:

[url]
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1263685&forum_id=16771
[/url]

But i wasnt to much help. Does anybody know how to use LIRC with the CREATIVE INFRA CD ROM?

I compiled the kernel with SCSI emulation, and i tried all the things that says in that url. The thing is, either with the driver "creative_infracd"[url] or "serial" it doesnt create a /dev/lirc/0 [/url]or /dev/lirc.

I made the basic receiver (rs232) in lirc.org. But neither is working for me. Any help? Thanks.
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twipsta · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

In my (so far limited) experience with lirc, the easiest device to get set up is the homebrew serial device.

I was getting extremely frustrated at the fact i couldn't use my original serial IR kit with lirc as i could use it flawlessly in girder.

So yer, built the one on lirc.org, plugged her in and crossed me fingers ..... still nothing.
Then my brain decided to work for a split second and gave me the wonderful idea of trying the device in Winblows XP using WinLirc. To my surprise it started working worked straight away!

So now i knew I had two working serial IR devices that functioned in two seperate programs under Windows .... kinda ruled out hardware probs.
So back in linux I went, emerging and remerging lirc with various options and different USE flags. Still nothing! (Was about this time windows enticed me back .... I missed my games and my remote. can live without one of them, not both!)

I was getting to the point of trying almost anything. Good thing to (as my previous posts suggest) I forgot run 'depmod -a' so I don't think all the required modules where being loaded.

I'd recommend trying to get the serial IR device working first. That way you know lirc is up and running properly and it should be relatively to rebuild the lirc package with the creative infra driver.

Oh and if ya don't want ya Infra-CD I'll gladly buy it off ya. Me dad had one when I was younger (going back almost a decade now lol) and it was awesome. Not only did it worked great, it looked great

It was that cdrom that got me intrigued with the concept of a computer jukebox (well now they're called Media Centers but same thing lol)

gentunian · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject:

well i realized how to get working with the serial device. I forgot to:

$ setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

to put the module lirc-serial. And that's all, its working fine. But the infracd driver is not working. I think i'll use the serial device for now on. Thanks
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twipsta · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Damn shame you cant get the InfraCD going .... would go awesome in a small media center. Have you tried doing a google for something like 'infracd lirc' or 'infracd lirc howto' there's gotta be someone out there that has successfully got it working.

Now you've got the fun part, recording each of you're remotes button codes and setting up IRKick (or similar)
I haven't spent too much time on this part (keep getting distracted by win32 games :S) but i have set mine up to load xmms when I press the Audio button, closes it with the Power button and due to the fact I'm using the remote from an old Bt878 capture card I acquired I had to map play/pause/stop/etc. to the menu navigation buttons. Might just get one of those nifty universal remotes with an LCD screen and really geekify my house lol.

Nothing like lazing back in your couch controlling ya linux box with a remote eh?

gentunian · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject:

twipsta · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Lucky bugger! I had to get irrecord to learn my remote lol.

I also have a similar bug with XMMS. Depending what mood it's in it will occasionally freeze on me. Usually takes a while for it to happen, or when I try and show it off lol. I'm not 100% sure but I think it might be something in the lirc plug-in for XMMS (in my case) but it can get frustrating. Maybe I'll map one of the buttons to run a script that will grab the process id of XMMS and issue a kill command to it. Wouldn't fix the problem, but would make it a bit more bearable.

Interesting. The guy says it needs SCSI emulation/CD-Support built in to the kernel. I did some more googling and it does indeed seem like it needs ide-scsi emulation:

gentunian · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject:

well i realized how to put the scsi emulation. The module sg and ide-scsi creates de host emulation and the device /dev/sgX (sg0 and sg1)and i passed the append="hdX=ide-scsi" to the kernel boot parameters. The thing was my cd-rom drive was missconfigured i dont know why, it was selected as a slave where there was no master! (i still dont know why worked fine). I emerged lirc with LIRC_DEVICE="creative_infracd" in the /etc/make.conf file, and when i do:

(The emulation works fine, I've mounted a cdrom and i've read the data inside)

imanassypov · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject:

Is compiling the driver for remote in the kernel self-exclusive with specifying LIRC_DEVICES?

I noticed that if I compile the driver in the kernel, I dont even start the lircd and I still get output from the remote right onto my console, but not all codes match. Do you guys know where the in-kernel driver picks up the key mappings from?

Thanks!

-igor
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vaquerito · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

Hi, I've spent quite some time between howtos and googling around, trying to find out how to make my usb ir dongle work with lirc.

Though the official faq say it's technically impossible to use usb dongle, they also state that's not true at all and lying around google it seems someone could get this chip do the work.

My device has a KC-180 chip:

gentunian · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:09 am Post subject:

gentunian · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: