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

On 2019-09-23 23:08, Joe Dugandzic wrote:
> 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.

Kewl!
> 
> 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

*That* is a cringeworthy choice, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard . Who built 
your Lirc distro? Having said that, the option for using another path is 
--output <path> .
> 
> 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.

It is the --device option. But the best (IMHO, Alec disagrees (at least 
he did in the past)) is to use the TCP socket (8765), and starting lircd 
with the -l option. Then lircd and irsend can reside on different hosts. 
You can also then use the "irsend" within IrScrutinizer.

PS. Try "Lirconian", available at PyPI, as alternative to irsend.

Greetz,

Bengt