Re: LIRC on Raspberry Pi3B+

Hi Denis
Please elaborate - what do you need help with?
/Tom
-----Original Message-----From: denis . <[email protected]>To: 
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[email protected] <[email protected]>, Alec Leamas <
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[email protected]>Subject: Re: LIRC on Raspberry
Pi3B+Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 20:19:04 +0000





Do you have a tuto please  ? 
 : '(



Le 4 févr. 2019 15:27, [email protected] a écrit :

> Hi Alec and Bengt
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What a stupid story!
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> Thanks again for Your time and efforts! 
> BR Tom
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> -----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+
> > 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:
> > 
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> > 
> > 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
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> [2] 
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> http://www.lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html
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