Re: Raspberry PI: Bypassing IR TX/RX

Bengt Martensson <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:32:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Raj,

On 2020-03-20 13:13, Rajendra Panchal via LIRC-list wrote:
> Bengt said,
>      >>Make sure that you are using  a driver that can handle 
> unmodulated signals; I do not know the status  of the current RPi stuff
> 
> Please clarify, how do I make sure about the driver. If the Raspbian 
> Stretch kernel does not have specific support for the feature, is there 
> any way
> to use PWM GPIO pin (instead of any other output pin) and use FREQUENCY 
> 0 in the lircd.conf?

Why don't you just try it? Use a cheap (< 10 USD/EUR on ebay) logic 
analyzer + sigrok + pulseview to check that if works. If it does not, 
file issues on the drivers and/or fix it yourself. Please keep us posted.

Greetz,

Bengt