Re: [mythtv-users] lirc_serial fails under load, alternatives?

[Daniel M <ra...@us...>]

At the same time, why bother with home built devices when you can buy
almost hassle free and dirt cheap commercial devices just a mouse click
away. 

Soon I think the only reasons why someone should go for a home built
lirc device would be the educational and/or recreational value it gives
the builder.  

/Daniel

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:30 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Mark Covington wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using LIRC and a serial port receiver with Myth.  After a short
> > discussion on the LIRC mailing list, I'm finding that heavy interrupt
> > usage such as recording a couple HD programs causes some codes to be
> > incorrectly decoded.
> >
> > See - http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#bugs
> >
> > I have an HDHomerun so it probably generates twice as many interrupts
> > using the network port and hard drive.
> >
> > So, with all the other huge multituner Myth boxes out there I can't be
> > the only one with this problem.  What have other people done to avoid
> > this problem?
> >
> >   
> Hi Mark:
> 
> No solutions, but a plea:
> 
> It would be really, really nice for someone to design / build an open 
> source PIC-based LIRC decoder.  This would get around what you're 
> seeing, and also provide WOR (wake-on-remote) functionality....
> 
> Any PIC programmers out there?  I'm up to my eyeballs in embedded stuff 
> and can't take this on.
> 
> I'm cc'ing the LIRC list so that maybe some kind soul there will do this....
> 
> --Yan
> 
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