[mythtvnz] Setting up an irblaster

[Dagan Galarneau]

Initially I had the PVR-350's remote successfully sending commands, and 
then I added the lircd instance for the serial IR blaster.  I'm not sure 
how applicable this is to you, as I was using Mandriva, but when I added 
the serial transmitter everything seemed to work.  I didn't get much in the 
way of error messages anywhere.  The transmit program happily said it was 
working.  But nothing was happening.  Like you, I struggled to find out if 
it was a hardware problem with the IR Blaster, or a software issue.

In the end, I downloaded the latest snapshot version of lirc and compiled 
it myself, rather than running the stock Mandriva version.  Everything 
magically started working pretty much instantly.

At 09:53 p.m. 20/02/2006 +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
>think my setup for that is okay, at least I followed the howto to the letter
>and got all the devices created :)  I checked that I could use my MCE remote
>and it worked fine.  I also tried killing that instance of lirc in case that
>helped the serial one, but with no noticeable difference.