Lirc and Homebrew Serial Recivers

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

Has anyone manged to get Lirc .0.7.2 and the 2.6.13-r5 kernel working with a homebrew reciever? if so, how the hell did you pull it off? I've been searching the forums for a few days and have yet to find anything, I have so far gotten the kernel modules to load, but the reciever doesn't seem to pick up anything, it works with winlirc.

Thanks in advance
Cae

anxt · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:07 am Post subject:

well what kind of homebrew is it? serial or usb? ... what kind of chip is on it?
does dmesg show it when you run modprobe lirc?

i got a JetEye-pc working with lirc_sir.

BTW i compiled my own lirc cause i wasn't sure of what to pass portage, and didn't care to look since it worked.

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

I am using a homebrew serial reciever that I made using parts from radioshack when I modprobe the lirc module it load cleanly. I used lirc from portage

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

bump !

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

No one has a working homebrew serial reciever working on a 2.6 kernel?

physcofish · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

I had my homebrew receiver working under 2.6 prior to 2.6.14 without any problems. Then my hard drive crashed and I can no longer get it to work. Are you getting any errors from anything or does the reciever just not pick anything up?

Jon

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

Woah, hey, I don't get anything to come up when the reciever is connected.

I pretty much gave up on anyone finding this thread, it seems to be a general problem that no one has a homebrew reviever working, I am running a 2.6.13-(r6?) kernel on my HTPC and I can't get any sort of output from having the lirc circuit connected

peje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 100

If you search you'll find a thread with an 0.8pre2.ebuild, I took this and adaptet it to 0.8pre3 (you've got to search the cvs-snapshot.... rename and put it into /usr/portage/distfiles) and with 0.8pre3 it works even with 2.6.15.
cu peje

physcofish · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

I have lirc running under 2.6.14-r5 with a homebrew reciever. It took a little work and configuration changes to get it to work. Some of what I did is documented in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-421663-highlight-.html

-jon