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

[Dan L. <da...@my...>]

So you are saying that there is no driver that will support IR 
sending/blasting using the irrDroid Transciever on linux? It definitely 
does work on windows via WinLIRC by the way.

I haven't had much time to work on this unfortunately. I got derailed 
once I realised that I would need to update the Raspberry Pi's OS to 
properly switch to using systemd so I could follow alec's information on 
debugging because Raspbian's version of debian is pretty old. Got as far 
as upgrading the OS and switching to systemd last time I had some free 
brain time. I was thinking I probably needed to recompile LIRC on the 
new OS as the difference in OSes might explain some of the bugs I was 
seeing.... However if the driver itself just won't work with hardware on 
Linux I probably should just abandon the whole thing as a bad job.

On the offchance, does anyone know of any purchasable USB IR sending 
hardware that is supported by LIRC?

cheers

Dan

On 17/08/2015 15:55, Bengt Martensson wrote:
> 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
>
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