Re: Using LIRC to IRBlast/irsend with a Raspberry Pi 2 & an Irdroid Transciever

[Bengt M. <bu...@be...>]

On 07/27/15 19:59, Dan Lawrence wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying unsuccesfully to send control my TV for the command
> line for the past week and have exhausted other avenues of help. LIRC
> seems to be one of the great mysteries of the internet. As the subject
> indicates I'm trying to do something that (I think) is fairly
> straightforward but I'm probably missing an obvious step due to me
> unfamiliarity with linux. I managed to get the USB irdroid Transciever
> working in about an hour on Windows using WinLirc but Raspbian has
> defeated me.
>
>   From what I can divine from years old forum threads and my own repeated
> poking at it, the version of LIRC that ships with Raspbian is too old to
> have native support for the irtoy driver which, I believe, is the latest
> version of the linux driver (formerly known as irman) that works with
> the irdroid Transciever.

No, this description is about as wrong as it could be. There exists a 
very old piece of receive-only IR hardware, called IrMan 
(http://www.intolect.com/irmandetail.htm) The IrToy comes with, in 
addition to its own communication protocol, an emulation of the decoder 
in IrMan, 
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/USB_IR_Toy:_IRman_decoder_mode. This 
is the one that Lirc < 0.9.2 used, repeat, receive only. Since around a 
year, there exists a driver for the native IrToy (by Peter Koiman, and 
to some extent hacked by myself). This does not work work with IrDroid.

The Lirc IrMan driver (irman_drv.c) does not support sending. How (if?) 
it works in WinLirc, I have no idea.

[Yes, this was some weeks ago. Better late than never... I bought one 
such gadget just of interest.]

Greetz,

Bengt