[mythtvnz] Serial IR reciever Skystar 2 - lirc compatable

[David Shepherd]

Duncan Kennington wrote:
> On 27/06/07, Phil Bertram <phil.bertram@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>> The remote has a valid lircd.conf but I can not seem to get lirc 
>> working. I'm
>> sure I have set all the permissions correctly. Following the 
>> instructions in
>> the docs carefully.
>> I have also compiled and tried many the other drivers that talk directly
>> to /dev/ttyS0 with no luck.
>>
>> $ irw
>> Jun 15 11:32:28 pb lircd: lircd(serial) ready
>> Jun 15 11:32:32 pb lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>> Jun 15 11:32:32 pb lircd: could not open /dev/lirc
>> Jun 15 11:32:32 pb lircd: default_init(): No such device
>> Jun 15 11:32:32 pb lircd: caught signal
>>
>>
>> Has anyone on the list got this reciever working with lirc ?
>> Or, are my problems related to simple lack of support for this device 
>> in lirc.
>
> I don't have one of these units, but remember seeing this behaviour
> while trying to get LIRC going - what is /dev/lirc linked to (if
> anything), and what are the permissions and owner/group on the linked
> device?
>
> Mine is
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 61, 0 Nov 27  2005 /dev/lirc
>
> If that helps.  It is still entirely possible that it is a driver
> issue, but it pays to check the easy stuff!
>
I had a similar problem (I think) and I solved it by adding a 
"setserial" command to the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh (although there's 
probably a better place to add it)
See http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc8.5

Hope this helps
Dave