[mythtvnz] PVR 150 irblaster and sky

[Simon Green]

Thank you everyone for your help. I finally have got this going by
following the instructions at this page
http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/IR-BLASTER-HOWTO.html,
using a serial IR transmitter.

Some modifications (I am about to e-mail the site author so they can
update their page):

 * I used lirc-0.8.2, instead of 0.7.2
 * As a result I needed to add the following line to the shell script
mv ./drivers/lirc_ttusbir    ./drivers/ledxmit_ttusbir

* Instead of creating /etc/modutils/lirc-ledxmit, I needed to create
/etc/modprobe.d/lirc-ledxmit
* I used http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/pace/RC-30 as the
contents of /etc/ledxmitd.conf
* I stuck the init script in /etc/rc.local rather than /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
* I added the following line[1] to /etc/rc.local (before the others):
/bin/mknod /dev/ledxmit c 72 0

End result, my serial IR transmitter now controls my sky box, and the
sky remote is no longer required. Hope this helps someone else later
on when they find this search in Google :-)

  -- simon

[1] there's probably a 'more correct'[tm] way of doing this with udev,
but the above worked for me.


On 29/11/2007, David Lowe <david at thistledown.co.nz> wrote:
> Simon, I'm certainly no expert at this stuff, but I got the same error
> message as you a while ago (could not connect to socket etc) and it turned
> out (somewhat embarrassingly) to be nothing more than an incorrect reference
> to /dev/lirc because I had messed it up. Hope that helps save some chest
> hair...
>
> - David