On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:40, Kirk Bocek wrote:
Scot, I believe you said you were using the IR receiver on the PVR-350, right? Do you have any notes or gotcha's on getting it to work. So far, I'm having no luck.
I've got ivtv installed and have got my X session running on the PVR-350's frame buffer. Now I'm trying to get the IR receiver working but am getting no output out of irw.
I've got lirc 0.7.2 installed. I've got:
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
in modprobe.conf. When I modprobe lirc_i2c it whines about bttv and cx8800 (which aren't installed) then says:
lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr=18] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10
So it looks like the two pieces are talking. the /dev entries seem to be correct. But I get no output at all from irw. No errors either. I even tried plugging in a second Hauppauge IR receiver into the card that I had laying around.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks, Kirk
On my masterbackend/frontend system it uses FC3 which is probably closer to Centos 4.1 (assume that is the version you are using).
I have the following entries in /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c # --- BEGIN: lirc setup --- install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c # --- END: lirc setup ---
I believe I found that in Jarod's guide for FC3. The FC4 install used these same lines. When I set this up on the slave backend/frontend system lirc worked first time with irw and then with mythtv.
I just followed the section in Jarod's guide for setting this up. Check for typos and walk through each step carefully. Make sure 61 is the right number for the device. Look for the major number 61 in the /dev directory. Should be lirc device or grep for 61.
And just to make sure the simple things are taken care of, check that you put the batteries in the remote. And that they are installed correctly. :)