Separate TX/RX remotes

[Julian C. <jul...@vi...>]

Someone asked about this and I wanted to do the same thing. This is the 
quick fix solution that
worked for me using the CVS sources:

Scenario:

Wintv i2c for receive
parallel port homebrew for transmit

Method:

a) Run two instances of lircd, one for each remote, on different devices
b) use the internet socket instead of the unix socket for sending

Procedure:

1) create /dev/lirc1 major - 61, minor =1
2) alias lirc_i2c to char-major-61-0
3) alias lirc_parallel to char-major-61-1
4) in a new source tree run setup and select parallel
5) edit config.h and change to this:

	#define DEV_LIRCD     "lirctxd"
	#define PID_LIRCD       "lirctxd.pid"

6) make, make install
7) rename /usr/local/sbin/lircd to /usr/local/sbin/lirctxd
8) in a new source tree copy the attached patched irsend.c to the tools 
directory
9) run setup and select wintv, make, make install
10) edit the service start script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/lirc on RedHat):
   start)
         echo -n "Starting Infrared Remote Control: "
         daemon lircd  -d /dev/lirc0
         daemon lirctxd  -l -d /dev/lirc1
         daemon lircmd
         echo
         touch /var/lock/subsys/lirc
         ;;
   stop)
         echo -n "Shutting down Infrared Remote Control: "
         killproc lircmd
         killproc lirctxd
         killproc lircd
         echo
         rm -f /var/lock/subsys/lirc
         ;;
11) Everything should work as normal but to send codes use:
	 irsend -p send_once <remote> <code> ...
      to send via the internet socket


Maybe something like this can be built-in ?

Julian