Re: LIRC using with directly wiring the endpoints.

Raj Panchal via LIRC-list <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:55:56 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bengt:
I installed lirc using apt-get and there is no update to it.
It has lirc_rpi and I'm using that.
How do I upgrade it to the latest as yours?

Greatly appreciate your help.
Raj

> On Oct 23, 2017, at 2:31 AM, Bengt Martensson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/23/17 00:22, Raj Panchal wrote:
>> Thanks Bengt:
>> Setting the frequency to 0 in lircd.conf did not make any difference when I ran irsend on source RPI3 and monitoring the receiving Rpi3 gpio22 using mode2 -d /dev/lirc0.
> 
> It should not, really, since mode2 operates on the demodulated signal.
> 
> There was a bug in Lirc, see https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/tickets/132/ , that turned frequency 0 into DEFAULT_FREQ. Fixed in 0.9.4(?).
> 
>> I have  lirc (0.9.0~pre1-1.2) installed on both RPI3.
> 
> Definitely contains the bug.
> 
> But also several drivers are not "frequency 0" capable. I do not know which one you are using. Mine lirc_rpi https://github.com/bengtmartensson/lirc_rpi definitely is frequency 0 compatible.
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Bengt
> 
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