Re: Are multiple IR-receivers and/or multiple serial ports supported

[Jon S. <wo...@ou...>]

Hi all,

I've been lurking for a few months, but thought I'd chime in here...

I have a home automation Linux box in the basement, and I have several
different TVs, VCRs and stereos around the house.  I'd like to have my
entire system setup so that I have (1) a single receiver in the
livingroom with multiple tranmitters for multiple devices (stereo, TV,
two different VCRs, DVD, etc); (2) a single receiver and single
transmitter in the basement (TV, VCR, etc); (3) a single receiver and
single tranmitter in the bedroom (TV, VCR, etc); (4) etc...  What I'd
like is to have each room on a different serial port, so that I can
distinguish between the IR codes that are received from (and sent to)
the livingroom verses the basement verses the bedroom.  This way I could
route audio sources to different rooms depending what codes are received
where.

I get the impression that this is not possible with the current LIRC, or
am I wrong here?

-Jon
10/20/2002

Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Blars Blarson "bl...@bl..." wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >> If the answer to the above is no, then is it possible to use a second
> >>  serial port for the second receiver?
> >
> > This is not trivial with the current driver code.  This realy should
> > be rewritten to allow multiple lirc_serial ports on one system.
> 
> Do we really need this?
> 
> We are currently thinking (Manuel actually has already started) about a
> clean-up of the LIRC kernel interface and one major design decision will
> be if we really need a major number or if a misc-minor will be sufficient
> for the kernel drivers. In the latter case you will always be restricted
> to at most one infrared receiver per system. Currently I'm not really
> conviced that for such kind of interface that the infrared remote control
> is, you will really need several receivers.
> 
> Can anybody give good examples that will justify the need for several
> receivers per system.
> 
> Christoph
> 
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