Re: LIRC on Raspberry Pi3B+

Hi Alec and Bengt

Thanks to;
- Bengt's hints & some similar pointers given at in the Raspberry
forum 
- and also realizing that my iphone, which camera previously picked up
the the IR-light, seem not to show this anymore
I could move forward.

As much as this may sound like BS, it's true: it worked all along!
My Iphones could not show the IR-LED activity (I have 2 and none picked
up on the IR) and also I had for some reason changed my setup to be as
mentioned in the instructions - collector attached to 3.3V.
As much as this may be right way, it gives a very weak IR-pulse => the
TV did not pick them up.

Using an older phone & camera showed me there was in fact an IR-pulse
but weak as h-l
Moving the jumper from 3.3V to 5V made it slightly stronger and now my
TV reacts to it.

What a stupid story!

Thanks again for Your time and efforts! 
BR Tom




-----Original Message-----
From: Alec Leamas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LIRC on Raspberry Pi3B+
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 09:06:56 +0100

On 03/02/2019 21:44, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi
> I've been struggling getting IR-blasting back to work on my Pi3B+
> fortoo long now.
> I bought it to use it as an IR-blaster for TV's. It worked very well
> fora long time but suddenly just stopped.Connections checked of
> course!
> Tried to check various logs for hints but I can't really tell
> wetherthere 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=trueDRIVER="default"DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"MODULES="l
> irc_rpi"

Aye... You didn't read README.Debian and the notes herein on how to
dothe upgrade. One of the things described there is that lirc as of
nowdoes not use hardware.conf. Please refer to said file [1] and
theconfiguration 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,
hardwarepermitting.
Cheers!--alec
[1] file:///usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian.gz
[2] http://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html