Can't get IR Blaster working with LIRC 0.9.4c

On 28/12/18 05:11, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 09:44:01PM -0500, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
>>   transmission failed
>>   Error running command: Input/output error
> 
> Well, OK, I was way off base.
> 
> Eventually I found documentation on the "default" driver, which says
> that it works with anything that the kernel supports... which of course
> includes basic UART serial ports.  Probably www.lirc.org/html/table.html
> should be updated to list "default" as the driver for these homebrew
> thingies.
> 
> The real problem was in /etc/lirc_options.conf on the "device" line.  I
> had to replace "/dev/lirc0" with "/dev/lirc1".  I figured this out by
> removing and reloading the lirc_serial module, and noticing that that
> dev went away and came back.
> 
> (Hmm... here's hoping that it shows up in the next place upon next
> reboot.)

By design, the kernel device names are random, so you need to create a
stable name for you device using a udev rule.

There are hints to create such a rule in [1]

Cheers!

--alec

[1] http://lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html#appendix-9