Re: LIRC receiving is working, irsend the ir transmitter blinks, but tv does not see it

TONS of great info here, I appreciate it.

I moved the IR transmitter 1 inch away from the TV and it is now working! I
would have never guessed that those things have such a short range.

I am now going to go look for the relevant documentation to send specific
ir codes when pressing buttons on a different remote.
so that when I press certain buttons on the HP mce usb remote, it sends the
relevant ir code to the tv to adjust volume up or down.
This way I can use the HP mce usb remote for everything instead of having
to use multiple remotes.

I am so very happy now! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:04 AM Bengt Martensson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 8/13/19 7:14 PM, Jake Gaisser wrote:
> > Bengt Martensson sorry for the double reply, I have not really used
> > mailing lists before, and I think I was supposed to hit reply to all.
> >
> >
> > I am sorry, I should have explicitly said that I do have the emitter. I
> > have the wired IR emitter with the jack, it is plugged in, and I have
> > the emitter positioned about 1 foot in front of my TVs IR Receiver.
>
> It is called "stick-on-emitter" because you are supposed to stick it on,
> just on top of the device's IR receiver. It (normally!) does not cover 1
> foot; such things are sometimes called "blasters".
>
> >
> > When I issue the irsend command I can see that the IR emitter Does blink.
> >
> > I decided to capture some raw codes so that I could see if that would
> > make a difference, and also to see what they look like:
> >
> > sudo mode2 -m --driver default --device /dev/lirc0 > ~/lirc.conf
> >
> > here are the results, this is me quickly pressing the volume up button
> > on my Samsung BN59-01199F remote: https://pastebin.com/bwCMLdpR
>
> First one decodes (with IrScrutinizer) to NECx2: {D=7,F=7,S=7}. Looks OK.
>
> ...
>
> > If you were in my situation how would you debug this?
>
> 0. Stop Lircd.
> 1. Install IrScrutinizer
> (
> https://github.com/bengtmartensson/harctoolboxbundle/releases/tag/Version-2.0.1
> )
> 2. Start it. Set sending hw and capturing hw to /dev/lirc, and select
> /dev/lirc0.
> 3. Capture one interesting signal from the Samsung remote. The send it
> with Transmit to the TV. The tv should now react.
> 4. Capture the full remote from the Scrutinize remote/Parametric pane.
> 5. Export it to Lirc format (which gives you a lircd.conf file)
> 6. Start lircd again with the just generated lircd.conf file.
> 7. You can now irsend, or better, use IrScrutinizer's "irsend" (Sending
> hw/Lirc, select localhost; you need to start lircd with the  -l flag for
> this.)
>
> ...
>
> > On a unrelated side note, every time I try to record with irrecord I
> > must first edit /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
> >
> > so that driver = devinput and device = auto
> >
> > otherwise when I try to use irrecord or mode2 I get an error message:
> >
> > sudo mode2 -m --driver default --device /dev/lirc0 > ~/lirc.conf
> > Using driver default on device /dev/lirc0
> > Cannot initiate device /dev/lirc0
>
> Only one of lircd and mode2 can access /dev/lirc0 at a single time. It
> is enough to stop lircd.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>