From: Jon S. <wo...@ou...> - 2002-10-20 13:05:40
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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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: > Access Your PC Securely with GoToMyPC. Try Free Now > https://www.gotomypc.com/s/OSND/DD |