Re: /dev/lirc0 not found

Sean Young <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 08:35:38AM -0400, John wrote:
> I am using a Raspberry Pi 1B running Raspberry Pi OS (Trixie) with a
> TSOP38238 infrared receiver to be able to capture the codes for an IR remote
> that is not supported by the Amazon Fire stick. LIRC was installed from the
> distribution repository (v 0.10.2). The configuration is setup based on the
> following page by Gordon Turner ( https://blog.gordonturner.com/2017/10/29/linux-infrared-control-part-1-receive-ir/
> ). Though I can see 3.3VDC at both the lead for power and the lead for
> input, the LIRC device (/dev/lirc0) is not present after boot up. Not sure
> how to proceed.

That page is really out of date:

	dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

lirc-rpi has not been supported for a long time. You need:

	dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=18

See e.g. https://devkimchi.com/2020/08/12/turning-raspberry-pi-into-remote-controller/

Thanks,

Sean
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