Working Streamzap on 2.6.7 / FC2

[Simon W. <si...@th...>]

I finally got my Streamzap remote working on Fedora Core 2 with a 2.6.7 
kernel.

Previously attempts at using the sourceforge patch against standard Lirc 
had failed (even after manually massaging the patch to get it to apply 
then build then compile). 

I'd also tried to use the version from here

	http://www.grangenet.net/~greg/streamzap.html

but, whilst that  that just gave me lots of

	lircd 0.7.0: trying "streamzap" remote
	lircd 0.7.0: <768
	lircd 0.7.0: space expected
	lircd 0.7.0: failed on sync
	lircd 0.7.0: failed "streamzap" remote
	lircd 0.7.0: decoding failed for all remotes

I have to confess I haven't tried the latest one with its patch to 
receive.c which may have fixed that particular bug.

Instead I used the the /dev/input driver from here 

	http://home.pacific.net.au/~damian.ivereigh/streamzap-1.0.0.tar.gz

and compiled Lirc to use the input event driver.

I then downloaded and installed Gerd Knorr's input utils from 

	http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/ 

and created a lircd.conf from a mix of irrecord's output and the timing 
from the SF streamzap patch's config.

I started lircd with
	
	lircd -d `/usr/local/bin/findevent name streamzap`

You can get findevent from here ...

	http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/findevent

The lircd.conf I used is attached.

Hopefully this might help someone having the same problems as I was.

Simon

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