Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:53:22 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, hselasky@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More webcamd dvb remote hacks - lirc port update for testing Message-ID: <20110207195322.GA70107@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110206153650.GA65929@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20110205233155.GA43368@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1BF771F9-5E0C-4508-8898-84FF5F2799BB@gsoft.com.au> <20110206153650.GA65929@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 04:36:50PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:35:53AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > On 06/02/2011, at 10:01, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > As I discovered a little while ago our lirc port is too old to > > > handle the /dev/lirc0 device I patched webcamd to enable so I tried > > > updating it: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/lirc/lirc-0.9.0p1.patch > > > > > > I have Cc'd the lirc port maintainer, do you think an update like > > > this could go in? I probably could also enable the ftdi support > > > because we have devel/libftdi too, but I cannot test it. > > > > I don't have any LIRC hardware anymore, so if you are actively using it you can take maintainership. > > Hmm ok, if noone else steps up... The only `lirc hardware' I have > are some usb dvb tuners and this `Hootoo' usb mediacenter remote, > and the latter I couldn't get to work properly with lirc because > of the way it handles repeat (i.e. it doesn't, it returns the code > at button press and a zero at button release and I didn't find an > easy way to make lirc behave with a device acting like that. I did > get that remote to work with the vdr remote plugin tho, only some > buttons don't seem to return anything.) I have just added support for libftdi and a few more usb ir receivers to the lirc port update: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/lirc/lirc-0.9.0p1_1.patch So if someone wants to test e.g. an usb ftdi ir receiver... http://www.huitsing.nl/irftdi/ Cheers, Juergen
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