From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 15:51:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF49A16A402 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [216.9.132.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EBC13C465 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49827E8D9; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:51:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1ZujE9xYnLgB; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:51:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from [156.56.12.213] (loony.uits.indiana.edu [156.56.12.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0917E8D7; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <45FABCE8.20400@netmusician.org> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:51:04 -0400 From: Joe Auty User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Torfinn Ingolfsen , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <45F77267.9080403@netmusician.org> <20070314054117.GB6688@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7BADB2D8968E702424EAE969@ganymede.hub.org> <45F88A52.7000809@netmusician.org> <20070315080854.5232bb9b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20070315095424.GE11506@camelot.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070315095424.GE11506@camelot.theinternet.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: LIRC guide for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:51:07 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Milton wrote: > +-------[ Torfinn Ingolfsen ]---------------------- > | On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:50:42 -0400 > | Joe Auty wrote: > | > | > The piece I'm missing is getting LIRC listening on a device node so > | > that it can communicate with my IR Blaster connected to my serial > | > port. > | > | I *think* that the problem is related to the fact that IR Blasters are > | using the serial port in a non-standard way. > | Instead of using the Tx signal to transmit data, they are using the DTR > | signal. This page seems to support that view: > | http://www.lirc.org/transmitters.html > | > | Thus, you need a special driver for the serial port which allows it to > | work in this way. It is probably a year or two since I looked at it, > | but the problem then was that LIRC's "driver" for serial ports was > | totally Linux-specific, not very clean code, and not easy to port over > | to FreeBSD. So nobody did make a LIRC serial port driver for FreeBSD . > > You don't really "send" or "receive" data to and from IR devices. > > You don't really need a driver, you just need to be able to strobe the control > line at the right frequency, in the right burst lengths. You can do it from userland > if you need to. > > The serial drivers for LIRC simply monitor the relevant pin and decode the > incoming data. You can do this in userland, without needing a lirc kernel > module to watch the serial port. > > The reason they use the control lines instead of tx/rx is that you don't need > to be concerned with baud settings on the port. Cool, so this is just a matter of software configuration then? Any ideas how I can setup LIRC to do this? - -- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+rzoCgdfeCwsL5ERAg2hAJ4nlb50QgV1t+FQxaNwPVtmtXf/jwCgn5Uq wmoTYwhLZjJ57Jtuqyen2sM= =d+mX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----