Homebrew Transmitter

[Marty R. <my...@ra...>]

I posted last night to the MythTV list about this issue I'm having with lirc
but didn't get a bite. Perhaps this is a the better bet. My apologies for
the cross post.


I'm working through the instructions at www.lircsetup.com in order to get my
MythTV box to be able to use a homebuilt serial transmitter and the receiver
on my PVR-350 at the same time.

Whenever I have the install line for the serial device in modprobe.conf like
:

install lirc_serial setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe
--ignore-install lirc_serial

The serial device seems to work (I can do an irsend and see the LED
flashing). The big problem is however that the IR receiver on the PVR-350
stops working. As soon as I comment out the above line and reboot the 350's
receiver works fine.

The only difference I can see between my setup and that of the one mentioned
in lircsetup.com is that the versions of some of the components that I have
installed are more recent than those mentioned.

 [root@localhost mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep lirc
lirc-0.8.0-52_cvs20051114.rhfc3.at
lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc3.at
lirc-kmdl-2.6.10-1.766_FC3-0.7.0-43.1.rhfc3.at
lirc-lib-devel-0.8.0-52_cvs20051114.rhfc3.at
lirc-lib-0.8.0-52_cvs20051114.rhfc3.at

The box is FC3 from Jarod's guide with the ATRPMs via apt-get.

Anyone have any idea why there would be a conflict between the two like
this? Any idea how I can track down what is going on?



Regards
Marty