Re: Trouble with irrecord and a serial IR receiver

[Phil D. <ph...@ip...>]

Anyone? I never saw a response to this....

Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I recently purchased the following serial IR receiver for my mythTV box:
> 
> http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p13_IR-Modul-2-Meter-COM-Port-seriell--WinLIRC-LIRC-Girder-Igor-etc-.html
> 
> After running "setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none" I can modprobe lirc_serial
> and get this in my dmesg:
> 
>   [  401.484293] lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
>   [  401.484300] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
> 
> The problem is that irrecord doesn't pick up anything. After 10 seconds it
> says I haven't pushed anything (no dots are printed) and exits.
> 
> It's worth noting that even if I don't have the IR receiver plugged into the
> serial port, it still "auto detects" the active high receiver when I
> modprobe the driver, which seems a bit odd.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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