Re: LIRC on Raspberry Pi3B+

On 03/02/2019 21:44, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been struggling getting IR-blasting back to work on my Pi3B+ for
> too long now.
> 
> I bought it to use it as an IR-blaster for TV's. It worked very well for
> a long time but suddenly just stopped.
> Connections checked of course!
> 
> Tried to check various logs for hints but I can't really tell wether
> there are problems logged or not. More on that below.
> 
> My IR-blaster hardware looks like this:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Software is up to date with current Stretch 2.5 November 2018.
> Lirc 0.9.4c installed and set up as below.
> 

> Here are my uncommented lines from */etc/lirc/hardware.conf*
> 
> LIRCD_ARGS="--uinput --listen"
> LOAD_MODULES=true
> DRIVER="default"
> DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
> MODULES="lirc_rpi"

Aye... You didn't read README.Debian and the notes herein on how to do
the upgrade. One of the things described there is that lirc as of now
does not use hardware.conf. Please refer to said file [1] and the
configuration guide [2] on how to configure a modern lirc.

Also note that while it's possible to configure blasting in one step,
it's often easier to first check that receiving works first, hardware
permitting.

Cheers!
--alec

[1] file:///usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian.gz
[2] http://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html