Re: LIRC on Mac via MacPorts - no /dev/lirc0

Bengt,

Thanks again for your help. I was able to use IrScrutinizer to record the
signals I wanted, and get them exported and put into one lircd.conf file. I
tested sending out the signals as captured and everything worked great.

My new issue is with IrSend - even though I've set the correct LIRC path
environment variable to /var/run/lirc/lircd, it seems to want to default to
/opt/local/var/run/lirc/lircd

lircd itself, if I run it, seems to come up with no issue, but IrSend is
stuck and unable to get to the socket because of the path problem.

I'm not sure how to "force" IrSend to use the right path, if it is somehow
ignoring the environment variable.

Thx,

--Joe

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:04 AM Bengt Martensson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2019-09-23 08:26, Alec Leamas wrote:
> >
> > On 23/09/2019 02:46, Joe Dugandzic wrote:
> >> So I have LIRC 0.9.4d installed on macOS Sierra via MacPorts, and the
> >> install ran w/o any issues or errors.
> >>
> >> My goals are just to record a couple of button presses from a remote
> >> and then send them out (automating the send via my smart home server).
> >>
> >> Anyways, I haven't done anything to the default config, and when I try
> >> to fire up irrecord (with the appropriate params so it won't
> >> complain)...it says that /dev/lirc0 doesn't exist and thus can't run.
> >>
> >> After running through a lot of the forums, I can't seem to find an
> >> answer to this. I tried a reboot, but that didn't help. My Mac does
> >> successfully see the device ( IRDroid USB from
> >> https://www.irdroid.com/irdroid-usb-ir-transceiver/ ) and I can get
> >> the details in System Info, but without /dev/lirc0 being established,
> >> I seem to be stuck.
> >>
> >> While I know my way around "UNIX" relatively ok and I used to be an
> >> app developer, I'm just kind of lost here on what steps to take to
> >> debug this. I have not yet setup LIRC to run at system startup...is
> >> that something I'm missing here? (Doubtful) I've seen other posts
> >> where LIRC has to be stopped so that it will free up the port for
> >> irrecord, etc. Anyways, it just seems like something else has to be
> >> run or config'd to get the port to show up.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The /dev/lirc0 device is by no means necessary, you could use any device
> > actually connected to your irdroid. However, this also means that you
> > cannot use the default driver, which is just a thin layer on top of the
> > linux kernel.
> >
> > You have the complete docs at
> > http://lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html, although being on mac is
> > a special situation. Basically, the first steps are to identify the
> > device and driver to use.
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --alec
> >
> >
>
> Let me add to Alec's answer:
> The IrDroid is a stripped down IrToy for a beefed up price, which I have
> previously explained on this list. You use it with the IrToy driver,
> which is described here: http://lirc.org/html/irtoy.html. It uses (on
> mac) a device node like /dev/tty.usbmodem00000001 and
> /dev/cu.usbmodem00000001. It does not use /dev/lirc.
>
> Let me suggest that you use IrScrutinizer instead of irrecord to capture
> your signals. It supports IrToy/irdroid directly, both for capturing and
> sending, and can generate your lircd.conf directly.
>
> Greetz,
>
> Bengt
>
>