[mythtvnz] Serial IR reciever Skystar 2 - lirc compatable

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:30:02 +1200

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Phil Bertram wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Wednesday 27 June 2007 9:25 am, Steven Ellis wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">Phil Bertram wrote:
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      <pre wrap="">Hi all,

I have  just purchased a Skystar 2 DVB-S card.
The card comes with a remote and serial IR reciever.

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.
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    <pre wrap="">What distro are you using?
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  <pre wrap=""><!---->Debian (Etch)
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    <pre wrap="">I've played with this and not had an issue getting them going. I'll see
if I can dig out a config.
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  <pre wrap=""><!---->OK. The serial reciever that came with my Skystar2 card is purple in colour. 
I'll assume it's the same one that you have played with and had success.
I'll have another go, starting at the beginning.

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I've just set up my 2 frontend boxes with purple serial receivers and
Techisat remotes (kindly supplied by Steve). 
I'm also running Debian Etch and managed to get them working.&nbsp; They are
switched off at the moment so I can't retrieve the /etc/lirc folder for
you.&nbsp; 
I recall that when installing the lirc-modules-source package it asks
if you want it to try and build the modules for you.&nbsp; This was a wrong
turn for me.&nbsp; It build the modules OK and installed them but they
weren't configured with the right build options so they didn't work. 
I ran dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source and set the correct options,
cleaned up the build area, rebuilt and reinstalled (using m-a). Then I
could at least check using irw that the hardware and drivers were
working.&nbsp; I'm happy to send you my conf files if you need them. 
 
Dave 
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